Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

I don't care if I remain prime minister. I'm only interested in doing a good job as long as I'm capable and for as long as I don't get tired.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.

You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.