A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.
The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.
Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.
I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.