Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don't really notice what people call me.

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.

Fragrance for me is never after or only, it's everything. I am a fragrance connoisseur.

It is to the dead that the life comes; it is to the unloveable that the love comes; it is to the lost that the salvation comes.

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

Think of mass immigration into America as a global 'right of return.'

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.