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.

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.

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

Oh my love! Your eyes are the mirror of my heart.

Good influences are positive, and they see the good in even bad situations.

You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised

Parents who take care of their children will find peace. And children who take care of their parents will also find peace.

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

A life's record with God in the details can be a spiritual feast for our souls. When we count our blessings on paper, our gratitude soars. It is all so evident.

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

That's what I love about kids. They don't care about anything else but who you are as a person.