During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.

I owe a great deal to the church for everything in which I believe. I am very glad that I was brought up strictly. I was a very serious child. There was not a lot of fun and sparkle in my life.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?

There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.

You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.