Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.