Autism is a very serious condition.

I'm not going out to parties every night.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

I came into politics partly because I want to be able to reduce taxes so that individuals have more of their money to spend, so that businesses have more of their money to create jobs, but I believe that lower taxes are sustainable when you get the public finances in order, so I will only make promises I can keep on taxation.

The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.

I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

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.

Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.

Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.

The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.

It's in our interests that the euro is a successful, strong currency.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

We are absolutely going to have to provide fiscal security to people; in other words, we are going to have to show the country and the world that the country can live within its means.

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

Every day, I genuinely count my blessings. One of the greatest things in life is to do a job you really enjoy.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.

I want London to be the global sporting capital.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.