This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind