"We made films at Ealing that were good, bad and indifferent, but that were indisputably British. They were rooted in the soil of the country."

"A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his …"

"The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enou…"

".... well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you…"

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a tem…"

"The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spir…"

"People in Hong Kong still believe in democracy – the big question after the Umbrella Movement is how we can…"