It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.