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

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

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

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past.

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.

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.