"I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess."

"Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding."

"I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999."

"I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people."

"Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it."

"Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace."

"Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm."

"President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame."