Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

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

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

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.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.