“Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.”

We wouldn’t want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We’d be rich!

If I was a Greek citizen I’d be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

But there’s certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He’s a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won’t bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.

[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.

I have been called a great many things in my time – that’s politics.

I am delighted at Des’s support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It’s appalling.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

I know there’s an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.

It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.

It’s the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that’s failed.

Nobody in Britain has voted for 4 million people to come here in the last 15 years, and for probably another 3 million to come between now and 2020.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone’s short-attention spans.

Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyones responsibility.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.