Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.

- Matthew 21:12

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’

Eustace Clarence liked animals, especially beetles, if they were dead and pinned on a card. He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Winnie-the-Pooh sat down at the foot of the tree, put his head between his paws, and began to think. First of all he said to himself: ‘That buzzing noise means something. You don't get a buzzing noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something.’

The NHS will not exist within five years of a Conservative victory

- Oliver Letwin, MP, 2009

whether there are tasks the army could undertake that would free up more police for the front line

- David Cameron, 2011

"It would be a sorry day if we had to have an army on the streets on the mainland of Britain"

- Willie Whitelaw, 1981