I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

History is too important to be left to the historians.