To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.