I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

All businessmen are scum.

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

You are perfect. Treat yourself like the being of beauty you truly are.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

If better were within, better would come out.

I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

The faith I was born into formed me.

I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

I vote yes....for Prim.