The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

I know people are fickle.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

Human being is human being.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.