I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

All I can say to the others is, 'Look out, we're on our way.

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids,' is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

Does your love reach this far, God? And if it extends to heaven and beyond… why can’t it seem to find me?

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

Some people use the sexual energy particularly during intercourse to take personal power from each other.

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

The casual listener won't be around forever.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.