I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world

Praise begins a prayer.

You should see his older brother,” said Jem. “Makes Gabriel look sweeter than gingerbread. Hates Will even more thanGabriel, too, if that’s possible.

We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.