Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

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.

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore.

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes to codify.

[At Conventions] they give me all the photos to sign. Star Wars, Superman. And Hammy the Pig is right up there.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.