If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

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.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.

It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?