The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.

The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.

What is the right exchange rate at one point is not necessarily the right exchange rate at another.

He's a good, brave and honourable soldier.

It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.

I’m sorry, ” I whispered. “I never wanted this for you. This life…I knew it was going to kill me in the end. I wish you didn’t have to be here when it finally caught up.

If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time.

I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to be a part of things that I loved and inspire people in some way.

Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

I'm not trying to fall in love on the Jersey Shore. I'm just trying to hook up.