Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

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

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.

You hear with your ears, but you listen with an open mind.

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.

This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.

It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.