The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night.

Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.

I think what children can handle and what they're interested in is much deeper than people assume. It's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.