I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

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.

Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around.

It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried to recall them, the words could never be right.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today.

The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.

My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.