We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.