Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we always reported on foreign affairs - we always had this quiet voice. It was so quiet sometimes I had to say 'speak up'. And he gave it in a way which wasn't exactly scintillating. And you know, foreign affairs are interesting. They affect everything that happened to our own way of life, and they are exciting. And so we just diverged.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

Obsolete weapons do not deter.

We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.