You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.

I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I'm afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.

London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.