The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.

An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.