I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

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.

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.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.