...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.

That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

To all my enemies, I will destroy you.

You don't just become something in life. You evolve and grow

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.