I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers

We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.