There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.

When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.

The last thing I'd say is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics. You can get a lot of things done. And that, in the end - the public service, the national interest: that is what it's all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said: I was the future once.

Warm congratulations to my friend Barack Obama. Look forward to continuing to work together.

More of the same will just produce more of the same - less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

The prime minister says he has a vision for change, well put that to the people of the country.