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.

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

It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

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

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

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

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.