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What I do not like is militant secularism, whereby anything is acceptable as long as it's not Christian.
Car horns were invented to warn other drivers of your presence, not to express displeasure or greetings.
The Tory party must learn from its own history that when we fight each other, you can guarantee to lose.
It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.
I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.
The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
The personality cult of the ego does not work down a coal mine and it does not work in the Labour party.
Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.
Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.
If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.
Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.
Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.
The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England.
I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.
One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.
I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.
If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.
The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.
Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.
If someone calls you fat and you are fat, then it will be hurtful only if you feel you should not be fat.
Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.
Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them.
I'm very mindful of the need to ensure we have a criminal justice system in which people have confidence.
Universities which deliver high quality research and innovation will be an essential part of that future.
I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.
I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.
I hate to say it because I voted against everything Thatcher did, but she had principles she believed in.
We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.
Frankly, people buying a home to let should not be squeezing out families who can't afford a home to buy.
If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.
The message I would say to China is, 'Carry on with the reform; carry on with the change you are making.'
I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.
What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.
I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.
As the mayor of London, my highest priority is keeping Londoners and visitors to our city safe from harm.
Letting people out of prison without professional staff to oversee their rehabilitation is irresponsible.
I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.
No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.
Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.