Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the way to advance their interests. We do not need to beg people to trade with us - as long as we have something that people want, of a quality they expect and at a price they are prepared to pay.

Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.

For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.

When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.

If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.