I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don't really notice what people call me.

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding

How many great gems were lost to thoughtand not put down to pen.You can but think of just a fewand then they're lost again.

Arguments should always be held in private. Audiences inflate the ego.

I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.

A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.