World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

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.

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

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

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

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.