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.

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.

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

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.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.