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.

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

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

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

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

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.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.