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.

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.

What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.

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

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

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

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