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.

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

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

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.

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

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

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