The Americans' position is clear: we promote democracy.

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack...

In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.

You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.

Sometimes I think I have the best job in the world.

I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.

David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.