Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.

I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.

The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

I certainly wasn’t Roger Deakins, but I felt like I could be.

I'm not running like Colonel [Bernie] Sanders. All reputations matter.

I met Pele once. I am not often nervous but in this moment I was shaking. He's a wonderful person.

Clear declaration of truth makes a difference in people's lives. That is what changes hearts. That is what the Holy Ghost can confirm in the hearts of God's children.

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.