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" 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. "

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" I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran. "

" Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks. "

" The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions. "

" I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. "

" When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach. "

" Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! "

" It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty. "

" People know that you can't spend more than you have. "

" I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique. "

" 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. "

" When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. "

" When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. "

" Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders. "

" There's only one growth strategy: work hard. "

" We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights. "

" The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China. "

" Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. "

" It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed. "

" The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. "

" Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist. "

" Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve. "

" One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet. "

" There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary. "

" The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal. "

" The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin. "

" Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority. "

" Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes. "

" Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable. "

" Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines? "

" Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. "