Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.

Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them you're not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.

The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.

President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.