I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

Life is full of surprises.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Buy health insurance, or go to jail.

Im not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down.

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.