He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

Politics is a blood sport.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.