The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.

Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.

Out of near disaster, came real progress.

Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.

My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

Trust the perception not the presentation.

If your children asked you about your honesty with God, Let them look at the pictures with the person you married and was the reason they're alive...and they will understand.

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.