A police state is a country run by criminals

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

History is too important to be left to the historians.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

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.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

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