There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

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.

Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

If we wish to be free from evil of sin, we must study the Scriptures.

Hypocrite - mouth one way belly 'nother way.

Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.

But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

Two is the beginning of the end.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.