The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead

Let me love and feel the charm and joy of life.

When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one.

Laughter is the human super-highway to the heart. It bypasses, any yellow or red lights and proceeds straight to green. Go get to laughing!!!

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

If I was going to be a princess, I would be a warrior princess.

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything