One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.