What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

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.

That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.

Innocence is the ability to see things for what they are.

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for everyone.

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

The difference between now and when I played during my younger days is my drives are shorter and my short game is longer.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.