Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.

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.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.