It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.