I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

Graeme Le Saux

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

Christopher Hitchens

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

Jacques Pepin

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: The first is the law, the last prerogative.

John Dryden, The Hind and the Pa

I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

William Lyon Phelps

I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination, He died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.

Louis Farrakhan

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Josh Billings

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Harriet Woods

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Seamus Heaney

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

Raoul Vaneigem

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher