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

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.