I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

Alma didn’t want Isabel to start singing the praises of their pet, a rescue beagle, or she wouldn’t shush until sundown. “I’ve found the missing lady, ” Alma said. “Say welcome home, Betsy Sweet.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

I try to take care of my hair because it sort of has to withstand a lot of blowdrying and ironing.

Nothing with God can be accidental.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.