Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Positive self-talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain.

I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

NATO is obsolete, because it's not taking care of terror.

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.

The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?

I'm surprised that Hollywood and networks have not been diverse as other industries.