The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

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

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

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.

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

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.