The person that takes over needs to have the skills to manage that ... I believe Andrea [Leadsom] has the edge.

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.

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.

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.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

What? I'm not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter.

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's unlike anywhere else in the world.

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see.

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.