It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

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.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

I turned to face her. "What about fear. Can you outrun it?""Only if ye stand still and face it do ye have a chance against fear.

Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.

What else other than success can happen to anyone who refuses to stay down in the midst of any struggle, challenge or obstacle?

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

The fans are just as passionate about the projects as we are about making them.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

If you focus too much on the fools, you will eventually become one.

I like to have space to spread my mind out in.