Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

Political suicide can end a career.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere