"When I was a young man, my father told me not to get into politics, because it was dirty, and would destroy me."

"I wanted something ephemeral, that would pass like a falling star and, most importantly, that would be impossible for museums to reabsorb. I didn't want it to be 'museumised'. The work had to pass by,…"

"Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband."

"Let me marshal the facts. The crowd was unarmed, except with bludgeons. It was not attacking anybody or anything. It was holding a seditious meeting. When fire had been opened upon it to disperse it, …"

"Democracy requires work. ...The more they feel they've got the members Congress on the run, the more energized they become."