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

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

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

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

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.