Russia is bent on world domination.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?

There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.

Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice

How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.