Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

A generation of children has been betrayed.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

Elected presidents are for countries.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

I know people are fickle.

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

I trust the people.

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.