If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

I know people are fickle.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

The expected always happens

Free men stick their necks out.

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

That's as good as money, sir. Those are I.O.U.s.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.