Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

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.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

I don't mind scrutiny. What I don't like is lies.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.

Whiz Galliano whip whip the Armani In the drip drip lick lick like a lolly

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."