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.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.