Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.

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.

If women are so smart, how come hardly any philosophers have been, and now are, female?

While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality.

Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.

I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.