All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

A week is a long time in politics.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

Education is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.

Men - gifts that we love to open

Fear exists because we do not have faith.

If you can say no to the things you don't like and if you can persist along the way of trying to get better, you will find them, you always will. That is the law of life.

So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

He who follows another will never overtake him

XL is a world class brand with very successful insurance, reinsurance and life reinsurance businesses and I look forward to helping it realize its full potential.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.