If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

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

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.