As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s. . . You are more self-assured about that part. And that's the way it should be.
I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
The presidency is more than a popularity contest.
There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so youre kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When youre young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.