It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.

A clean house is a sad house.

It's better to die free than live life in a cage.

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.