I also think when it comes to delivering on Brexit, we need someone with a passion but also the mastery of the detail.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove.

Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country.

Ultimately what is not needed now is recriminations.

We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team...

Putting together a really strong unifying team was an absolute condition. When that fell away, I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

Those who cling to the shadows will always hate and despise the light.

To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.

I am not a madman or a nut.

And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.

When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.

A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.