I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I know people are fickle.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.

I can handle Glory." "Can you?" Eve asked. "Because I notice you never call her Gloriana. Just Glory." He shut up. Which is probably about the only smart thing he can do, Claire thought.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

There's a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.