I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.

It's great to be back on terra cotta

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.

The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long.".

You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.

Now is the time for guts and guile.

[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

Donald Trump does what everybody who voted for him wishes would happen every time the left pipes up.

Sometimes we don't appreciate Prayer until we have to go through something!