To be alive at all involves some risk.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.