"I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism."

"I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country."

"The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view."

"And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so."

"My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'"

"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."

"In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings."

"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."