"My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that."

"I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids."

"When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics."

"I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability."

"Fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

"On all the peaks lies peace."

"The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted."