Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain, you must either be a god or a corpse.

Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.

I'm not a natural comedian, as an artist. I studied comedy growing up. I would watch Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, all day.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.