If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

All businessmen are scum.

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

I'm a stereo & she's just so monotone

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.