“I didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country…”

I don’t like tokenism. I don’t like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.

Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don’t know if you’ve tasted crisps in other countries.

Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.

I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.

I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries.

Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.

People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.

Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.

I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.

Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.

I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.

Kitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world’s largest markets.

I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.

I agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.

Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.

In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.

Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.