In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.

If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".

He loved what he did, he loved being on Countdown - he just loved life

Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, they have not got into bed together; they are merely sharing a room.

If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?

As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right.

John Major. He dresses so well. And so quickly.

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after

Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you

We are all touched by music. Music connects us.

Outside every thin girl is a fat man trying to get in.

Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do

I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.