I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

Hope is like a bud that holds the hidden beauty of a flower.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Some people don't like staying in an atmosphere that was so hostile.

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

After the tsunami in Japan, we were open for business. In fact, I flew there 10 days after the tsunami to show our support for the Japanese people.

There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.

I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.