My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.