A ready smile concealed a firm mind.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm. I don't know whether he'd have done it any better or quicker had he been married.

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.