Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

Don't Cry For Me, Argentina

The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.

We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.

We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.