Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.