Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

For how long would I be trapped in the condition of melancholy without going insane?

Kings can only use their best tools.

Alchohol doesn't make you fat...it make you Lean...on tables, chairs & random people!!!

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.