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.

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 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.

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.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.

My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred

Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

My first instinct was Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) cannot be president of the United States. She needs to lose because it's the thing she wants most on the planet Earth.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.