Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.