I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

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.

When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.

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.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

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