The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain wary of it.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.