Birth is the most shocking thing that can happen to anybody. I’ve seen plenty of horror movies, but this about tops it.’
Tim Burton, director, on his new-born son, 2004

‘I wasn’t a butler. I was a personal friend. A confidant.’
Paul Burrell describing his relationship with the Princess of Wales, 2004

‘I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don’t want any of the other stuff.’
Matthew Broderick, 2004

‘I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.’
Bono on why he would never run for US President, 2004

‘A joke on the printed page bears as much relation to laughter as a recipe does to a meal. It only comes to life when it goes through a human being.’
Broadcaster Rabbi Lionel Blue, 2004

‘You wake up and hear Shipman has topped himself. And you think, is it too early to open a bottle? Then you discover everybody’s really upset. You have to be very cautious in this job.’
David Blunkett, Labour MP, 2004

‘I think human beings are actually designed to get fat.’
Professor Stephen Bloom of Imperial College London and Hammersmith Hospital, 2004

‘It’s true. I am old. I’m a pensioner and, to be honest, I think like a pensioner now.’
Cilla Black, 2004

‘I think it is better that she is allowed to express her grief in her own way without public controversy’
Tony Blair’s perspective on Rose Gentle’s accusation that her son, who was killed in Iraq, had been treated like ‘a bit of meat’, 2004

‘I am absolutely confident that the mechanisms for judging my fallibility are infallible.’
Tony Blair, 2004

It is a masterstroke by the organisers to site the beach volleyball in Horse Guards Parade just outside the Prime Minister’s window.’
Tony Blair, launching Britain’s 2012 Olympic bid, 2004

‘I was very confident we would find them. I have to accept we have not found them. I have to accept we may not find them.’
Tony Blair and the missing weapons of mass destruction, 2004

‘If the British people vote no, they vote no. You can’t then start bringing it back until they vote yes.’
Tony Blair on the Government’s plan to put the proposed EU constitution to a referendum, 2004

‘It is about the only thing I have done that any of my kids have considered worthy of comment.’
Tony Blair, reflecting on his appearance in The Simpsons , 2004

‘I think everybody knows the difference between smacking a kid and abusing a child.’            

Tony Blair, 2006, in case you were uncertain, Tony helps clarify the difference

‘I do not believe that any offence was to anyone was intended’                                                 

Tony Blair, 2006, regarding the sale of a copy of the Hutton Report into the death of David Kelly by his wife Cherie

‘No small businessman with a brain would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.’
Godfrey Bloom, Ukip’s newly elected MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, 2004