They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

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

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

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.

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

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.