I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are.
You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?
It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people the underlying value of that which is traditional, that which is prescriptive.
Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world. . . is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I think he would have been proud and smiling. . . when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.
Britain is China's best partner in the West.
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.