I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.

We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

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