The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one.

Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the “cojones” to carry our argument to the people.

My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion... make your minds up.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.

Teach people how to treat you

God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.

The main thing that God asks for is our attention.

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Help me by whatever you are pleased to do in your provinces.

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

The next few years is really going to be focused on shoes.

I don't see anything wrong in sticking your thumb into a guy's eye. Just a little.