I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.

I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.

The only person you resent is yourself.

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party.

I was not a politician.

I'm not tied to any particular political line.

A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.

Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you but by the light that shines within.

No one can hurt me now 'cause i have stopped permitting them.

You don't have to know someone your whole life to know them. Not really. Lonely is the same everywhere.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.