Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

Even when you lose, you get better. Sometimes when you lose, you win.

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

You date somebody, and you have this obviously intense experience where you share a life together in whatever way that is for how many years.

For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that's running on principles that we don't even understand.

The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

I want to be cutting-edge.

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.

Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.

You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.