Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.

I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.