I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can

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.

Who are you to decide the price for life?

I barrel into his arms, my mouth connecting with his. Seizing him. Feeling him. Loving him.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Did that remind anybody else of something?" "Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.