Philip Hammond

We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.

The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation.

You shouldn't send people out to do a job which you cannot afford to equip them to do.

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge.

We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.

Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings and feeling what a relief to live in a country with a Tory government again.

There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.

It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.