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?

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.

There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.

Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.