The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

No change, no chance.

Europe is my continent, not my country

The EU project is to create a country called Europe.

I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

Life is simple but if you don't put anything into it, you won't get anything out of it.

What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.

To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.

When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But I definitely don't have the skills to sing like that.