You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

If is a very big preposition.

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.