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" I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough. "

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" Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. "

" Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. "

" There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. "

" I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. "

" Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. "

" You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. "

" Look, I am very competitive. "

" In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight. "

" The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror. "

" I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. "

" Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice. "

" My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. "

" I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in. "

" Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. "

" But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. "

" The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for. "

" But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. "

" Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. "

" I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. "

" If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. "

" It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. "

" Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. "

Do The Right Thing

" Be a doer and not a critic. "

" The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. "

" The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. "

" In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. "

" The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. "

" Education is the best economic policy there is. "

" We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. "

" Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. "