If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don't really notice what people call me.

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

They will turn you over, toss you about, fob you off, take you less seriously, because to get there, you must walk on your own feet.

The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don’t leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.