A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.
One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.
Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.
I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.
When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.