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Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.
When I make a contribution in debates and in our public life, the House wants to hear what I say. It goes quiet - it wants to know what my opinion is.
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to leave for our kids.
You may think that those aeroplanes in this city on 9/11 came out of a clear, blue sky. I believe they emerged out of a swamp of hatred created by us.
The Office for Budget Responsibility correctly stay out of the political debate and do not assess the long-term costs and benefits of E.U. membership.
You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.
Under Conservative, Labour, and coalition governments, the U.K. was never willing to accept all the moves to union or all the requirements of the E.U.
I am mightily relieved that my holiday does not come after a long queue with the National Holiday Service, complete with bedroom-sharing like the NHS.
The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.
Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.
The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered.
I'm one of many who have seen their parents and their friends lose their jobs, lose their income, lose their livelihood because of the European Union.
I think that, given that some people feel very embarrassed by it, it isn't too difficult to breastfeed a baby in a way that's not openly ostentatious.
Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.
In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.
If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.
We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.
I am extremely honoured to be the Defence Secretary, and I would not do the job if I did not think that I could make a useful contribution in the role.
Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.
I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.
What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.
I knew what I had to do as party leader had to be sensible and relate to the real situation we were in, rather than a situation you would like to have.
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.
I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.
You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime minister and I'm absolutely with that.
What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.
A growth strategy requires tax rates that people are prepared to pay and cannot avoid or do not wish to avoid by going offshore or leaving the country.
Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives
We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.
Optimists - people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy - they're the people I believe who will vote for us to leave and take back control.
We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
We believe that government in Britain should be working to restore our reputation on the international stage after Iraq and engage better within Europe.
By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.
What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.
I'm 51; I'm younger than Tony Blair. I don't have a dicky heart; I'm up like a broom handle in the morning. I don't drink or gamble - I'm still a catch.
Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.
There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.
The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law.
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.