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

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.

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.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

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

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

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