Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.

Take not a minute for granted, because that minute can never be replaced.

They call you Medusa. One wrong look and your brain turns to stone.

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

Our job if you will, is to roll the stone away. God's job is to raise the dead.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.