I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.