"When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair."

"At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud."

"There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses."

"I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers."

"I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing."

"Strive today so that tomorrow may stand upon solid ground. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"It is a quiet truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow."

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."