That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids,' is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

All I can say to the others is, 'Look out, we're on our way.

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

When you are able to identify what drives you, you will be better equipped to draw out your possible options and make the relevant decisions that will help you achieve your goals.

There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!

The United States must join the rest of the industrialized world, guarantee health care to all people as a right.

If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.

My religion teaches me to love all equally.

Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.