No deals with the Tories; it's war.

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.

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

It's really my fault because I continue listening to the things that you say.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.