My job is to stop Britain from going red.

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

You can't buck the market.

The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.

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.

The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.

We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.