Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?

Some pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

There is no greater despair, than to tread with care upon ice that is already broken

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

You had to see him [Marco Rubio] backstage. He was putting on make up with a trowel.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.