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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.