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There is nothing you need fear - John Major in his address on the Ulster peace process.

Best way to help ensure healthy economic growth, leading to a continuing rise in secure jobs and higher living standards - Chancellor Kenneth Clarke's explanation for raising interest rates by 0.5%.

Anyone who found themselves borrowing money over the last five years will probably never want to borrow again - Lord McAlpine, former treasurer of the Conservative Party.

There is a growing strain of intolerance around Tony Blair. It is not enough for the leader to win and to be seen to win. His spin doctors want to create a schism. They are seeking to hype every victory into a crucifixion - Bill Morris, leader of the Transport and General Workers' Union.

A bald little creep with a high-pitched voice - Donald Pleasance on Donald Pleasance.

The idea that socialism is necessarily dreary should be washed away in champagne. It's tea, the product of a vast quantum of human toil and suffering, that should be banned from Labour Party HQ - Germaine Greer.

Anyone who has seen the video of his rocket exploding and him ejecting through the fireball knows what I'm talking about: He's our good-luck charm - space shuttle Discovery's commander, James Wetherbee, about Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Titov who will flyon a US mission next week.

Our electoral system gives supreme power not to the majority but to the largest minority - Vernon Bogdanor of Oxford University.