Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

War inside countries is all too common.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.