President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

This lady is not for turning.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.