Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

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

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

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

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