I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.