We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.

We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.