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.

Some people eat eggs, I wear them.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

Political suicide can end a career.