You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

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.

We're all the same in the dark.

You gain strength every time you pray.

It had been so long since she had felt anything.

It's a silence I know. The kind that's actually a sound so loud your brain doesn't know how to interpret it at first.

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful

Time is a most versatile resource. It flies, marches on, works wonders, and will tell. It also runs out.

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.