Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

She was trying to hide it, the pain I had caused her again. Because she knew how much those tears destroyed me.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.

The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

Respecting religions is not simply a question of universal tolerance; it is a question of believing that all religions are true.

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.