It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.
It's not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It's unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of six-figure, huge salaries telling us how we run our country despite having never stood for an election themselves.
But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.
I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it.
We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.
I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.
I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live
We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.
People are far more interested in what works than what's true.
A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.