Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

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.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.

I like it subdued and tepid, with far to much milk

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

I hate when women wear the wrong foundation color. It might be the worst thing on the planet when they wear their makeup too light.

How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.

Jew me, sue me, everybody do me.

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.