Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.

Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

Start small and dream big.

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.