It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

I'm not in the business of warning people.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.