I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.
You can't buck the market.
Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.
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.
What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.