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.

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

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

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.

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.

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