I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.