Political suicide can end a career.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.