I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.

Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" - and this present President... It's a tragedy, you know, what's happened there post-Mandela, because he was an iconic figure.

[ Rajiv Gandhi] was such an infinitely more attractive leader than his mother.

I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.