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

90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

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

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.