I would love to go on MasterChef. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

The national deficit is not rising.

Everybody lies

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

For art to be art it has to cure.

If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.