I want to win and I want to be in office.

[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

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.

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 come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.

I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.