Politician Quotes

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress.

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive.

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.