It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.

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 truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Don't confuse pressure with pleasure. For some people it"s not sure if they are having a seizure or ceasure

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

It's important to take criticism seriously - not personally.

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.