If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

In politics a week is a very long time.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]