He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power

A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.