I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

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

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

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 can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.