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.
It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.
I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.
I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.