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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. "

" At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. "

" Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. "

" You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack. "

" To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished. "

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

" Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. "

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

" The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. "

" The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. "

" I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. "

" 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. "

" Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping. "

" Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman! "

" To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms. "

" I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices 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. "

" When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads. "

" You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance. "

" I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it. "

" You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives. "

" 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. "

" Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests. "

" Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa. "

" We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today. "

" Yes, I've never inherited a penny! "

" 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. "

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