When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

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.

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

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

Political suicide can end a career.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

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