But if you - if what - the reports are true what they're saying is is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care at the margins that's going to increase our costs we knew that.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

It's obvious but perhaps worth saying that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could I would buy myself four hits every game.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words so lesser minds have a talent of talking much and saying nothing.

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So slam me for saying so but I'm really proud of the NHS.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die but saying that I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years four in state government eight on the national level.

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100 000 elevator.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.