"I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank."

"It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state."

"Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence."

"If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government."

"The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy."

"Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago."

"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."

"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."