[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

The IIFA Weekend has my unprecedented support. The relationship between India and the UK is long standing and one we would like to keep developing forever.

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.

What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.