Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.
I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.
There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.
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.