One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.