Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

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.

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.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.

I have come too late into a world too old.

Deadwood did not kill itself!

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

I teamed up with the PGA of America to help promote a weekend of golf that raises scholarship money for kids who lost a parent or whose parent was severely wounded in combat.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs.

I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.