I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

What was said before is not important.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

I had always heard of Bad Santa one but I hadn't seen it, but it was sort of legendary.

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away