Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

I was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no , no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes's not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he's reserved his position on the single currency.

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.

The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to undermine America when it mattered, had been sanitized; and the role of Mr. Gorbachev, who had failed spectacularly in his declared objective of saving communism and the Soviet Union, had been absurdly misunderstood.

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.