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.

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.

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.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

The devil will try and do everything possible to stop, distract us from our purpose

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Sometimes people are so genuinely themselves they aren't conscious of the fact they have wronged you

[ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' "It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

There's something about having people around you giving you support that is - it's motivating, and once I got that support from people then I believed I could do anything.