For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.