"Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria."

"I trust the people."

"Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history."

"Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party."

"The distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization."

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."