They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

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.

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

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

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.