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.

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

War inside countries is all too common.

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

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

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.