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

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

It isn't those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings.

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

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

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

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.