Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

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

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

America is now the dominant force and the only countervailing force is Europe.

I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.