In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.

It's great to be back on terra cotta

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.

The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

Frailty, thy name is human!

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?The world's a lot bigger than I am.

Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense

Liberty is the act of making the Government Fear what you KNOW!

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

I don't know what the 'big time' is.

Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?