The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

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.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

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

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.

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