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The reason we have been out of power for 15 years is simple - society changed and we refused to change with it - Tony Blair

The BBC management may become international media players but they are also public servants - Marjorie Mowlam, MP, Labour's heritage spokeswoman

If anyone was daft enough to offer me pounds 1,000 simply to seek information by tabling a question, even I would think about it - Michael Fabricant, Tory MP

If you look at apartheid in South Africa, it didn't end because Nelson Mandela had a pink rose, a new suit, a policy review and Saatchi and Saatchi - Tony Benn

The people working on TV in the morning are not exactly the cream of the crop - Terry Wogan, whose breakfast show is on Radio 2

He's a recluse's recluse. Howard Hughes had nothing on him - David Garrett, former Nasa spokesman on Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon

I love the News of the World and avidly read dirt on other people. But it really isn't nice when it's about to happen to you - Hugh Grant

Mr Spock is non-human and therefore not allowed. Captain Kirk is human and can come in - it makes no sense to me at all - Peter Brown, chairman of the British Toy and Hobby Association, on a ruling that toys made in China can only be imported into the European Union if they are 'human-like'.