I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

I know people are fickle.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

Modeling is my number one priority - one hundred percent.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.

Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.