I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

Life is full of surprises.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now.

Understanding was coming so fast, it seemed to bypass thought.

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

I'm not anti-gun or pro-gun, but if you put a gun in your hand, you feel different.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.