Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

I do not know much about politics but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very very key ambitions in politics not least social mobility and life chances that I care about as passionately if not more.

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics because I'm a total amateur but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is in my view as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about and if you don't know what your vision is go at somebody else.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Politics is not about power.

Politics is not about money.