We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.

Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.

Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.

For families flying out of the U.K. for a winter getaway, airports should be the ideal place to pick up a bargain.

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.