People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.