All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
Enoch PowellIn the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
Enoch PowellPaisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.
Enoch PowellThe Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made.
Enoch Powell