"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."

"Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does."

"We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules."

"I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school."

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

"The simplest truths often reveal that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."