If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

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.

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

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.

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.