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.

The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

All of our thoughts – ideas – are traceable to a sensation, an encounter with the world that leaves an impression upon the mind.

I will always be a girl that laughs as easily as she cries.

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.

It's healthy for a band to become slightly less relevant

For this I came - to open your hearts to the Light.

Testimony is contingent on experience, that's why we're all free spirits

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.