When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.