I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the “cojones” to carry our argument to the people.

My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion... make your minds up.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.

'Tis more blessed to give than to receive for example wedding presents.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

Everyone has his besetting sin.

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.

After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.