A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.

I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

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.

There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.