What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.