Our task is nothing less than the creation of a new constitutional order for a new united Europe.

Britain is a proud nation of entrepreneurs, and small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

I don't just empathise with the victims of Islamophobia; I worry about my own friends and family.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

I'm going to devote myself full time to securing and then winning a referendum on leaving the E.U.

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.

I have two daughters, it really means a lot to me to have two women standing now and being the PM.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.

Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.

I've been blessed - every job I've had I've loved, whether it's as a lawyer, MP, cabinet minister.

I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.

Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.

New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.

Visit any of the fastest growing parts of the world and you will find investment in infrastructure.

That's the problem with very high taxes - they don't redistribute wealth; they redistribute people.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.

Active dads make a positive contribution: they are good for children and they are good for mothers.

I've never been to a dinner that's laid on anywhere. I don't want to waste what few hours I've got.

The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U.

If you put us in a difficult corner, we will stand our ground - that is the kind of country we are.

I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

We can't completely isolate ourselves from international terrorism and the problem the world faces.

The danger with Margret Thatcher is that when she speaks without thinking she says what she thinks.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

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