Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

People perish. Books are immortal.

A police state is a country run by criminals

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.