What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s dog who goes to the bathroom in his flower garden. And know what else?

Keep Calm and Bend Over

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

Took me by the hand, she's gonna love me in my Chevy Van.

I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process.

The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.

The penalty of greatness is to write autographs.