Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that. That was our job. But ultimately it was his decision.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.

All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.

If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

You might also see that some of my playlists are simply two songs on repeat fifteen times, like I’m a psycho getting pumped up to murder the president.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

You exist! Be ambitious!