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

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

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.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

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

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.