"It is, I reckon, difficult to conceive of a single area of government policy that is at once so important for each of us, so catastrophically complicated, so insanely unjust, so obscenely ineffective, and has been quite so comprehensively cocked up by successive administratations as the British pension system."

"Despite a number of near misses, I came through the war unscathed. In Tunisia a shell hit my vehicle but wi…"

"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or …"

"What you can't do is have a situation where you get a rejection of the treaty and then you just bring it ba…"

"Over the last few months, these goals have driven President Obama and me to announce a series of Administra…"

"What a man does in his closet ought not to affect the rights of third persons."

"Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and nak…"