John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Friends and fire didn’t go well together.

May harmony find you" Atticus

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.