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

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.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

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.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

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

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.