The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

Unilateral disarmament by Britain is opposed to our country's best interests, could begin the unravelling of NATO and therefore jeopardise the stability of Europe.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it

...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.

May your heart be lighter today.

The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools.

Islam means peace.

There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.

Yeah, because when you’re attracted to someone, you actually enjoy kissing them and afterward, you don’t act like you kissed Adolf Hitler.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.