Far from doing what it can to ensure that the companies and entrepreneurs of tomorrow are European, the E.U. actively stifles innovation.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.

For too long, some lazy politicians have engaged leaders of Muslim communities as a shortcut to engaging disenfranchised Muslim citizens.

What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.

The right place for a terrorist is a prison cell; the right place for a foreign terrorist is a foreign prison cell far away from Britain.

If I had another life, that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.

Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.

The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.

She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.

Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.

The idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.

I am delighted to have won so much support from my colleagues. The Conservative Party can come together - and under my leadership it will.

I am so used to seeing a blond in the mirror that I forget that for most of my life I was very dark. Old photos are still a bit of a shock.

All of us, whether public figures or private individuals, should feel safe in our own homes and not fear surveillance from nosy neighbours.

It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.

A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.

When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

I find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.

Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world

Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.

My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being Muslim.

I get selfies taken everywhere. Everywhere. I can be in A&E, and I'm still getting selfied. It's nice, though. It's a nice problem to have.

There is no manual on how to run a global city like London. But I'm hugely proud of what we've been able to achieve in just the first year.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

Believing in God was something I took as much for granted as the air I breathed. Religion wasn't something that came out of a box on Sunday.

One of my best moments was getting a constituent out of jail in Morocco, by which of course I mean I got him released not that I sprung him.

One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, 'Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?'

We are lucky to have a free press. But in some parts of it, you have to search hard to find items concerning any negative aspects to Brexit.

Through argument and example, we must show that Corbyn's hard left socialism will destroy business - the engine at the heart of our economy.

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.

The problems of gang crime you find in some parts of the north are little different to the problems you find on the streets of south London.

You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege.

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

Conservatives in Government must make the case that lowering the tax burden boosts economic growth and leads to an increase in tax revenues.

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