When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

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.

Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

One of the hardest things in life to realize is that the person you love could never love you like you love them.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.

You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.