I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.

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.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

Everyone changes all the time.