I first started going to Chelsea games in the mid-Nineties when I lived off the North End Road, ten minutes' walk from Stamford Bridge.
I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.
The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.
One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.
If we leave the European Union it's a risk to our economy - it's a risk to pensioners, it's a risk to homeowners, it's a risk to people in work.
Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.
The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.
You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.
It's in our interests that the euro is a successful, strong currency.
Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.
The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.
Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.
I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.
