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.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

I want to score more goals; the main ambition is goals.

Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.