The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).

While President Bush was out of town Hillary Clinton stopped by the White House on Friday for an important meeting with her decorator.

You know what you gotta do cowboy?

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.