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

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.

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

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.

People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.