The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.

I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

The mind is time bound however

I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.

Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.

President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.