Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

I started when I was about 11, singing.

I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

You can treat faith as part of people's it's lives.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!