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.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

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

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

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.

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