The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are

Tunney has all the makings of a hero – he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking – but, like Lou Gehrig, he lacked the chemistry that stirred affection.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.