Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don't really notice what people call me.

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

My parents had drinks and there were crudités for us- although they were not called crudités at the time, they were called carrots and celery.

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

It's a wonderful thing to do an inductive study with our concordance.

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.