"The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim."

"Everything about my politics has been about the future."

"The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream."

"I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics."

"“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen.“Now, here , you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.”"

"Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes."

"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."

"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."