I Employed My Wife For Three Years

One Thing That Chairman Mao Did Was To End The Appalling Foot Binding Of Women. That Alone Justifies The Mao Tse-tung Era.

I Would Like To Sound Like James Mason. I Reckon If I'd Had A Better Voice I Could Have Been Prime Minister. It Is The Most Irritating Voice In Public Life.

The World Is Run By Monsters And You Have To Deal With Them. Some Of Them Run Countries, Some Of Them Run Banks, Some Of Them Run News Corporations.

The Tories Had The Legal Right To Demand Extra Meetings Of The Council But I Could Decide When They Would Be Held And Always Called Them For Friday Afternoons, Knowing That Three Or Four Of The Richer Tories Went To The Country Early And Were Not Prepared To Stay In The City Beyond Lunchtime. I Realised That Nothing In Politics Is New When I Read In Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars That Julius Caesar Pulled The Same Trick When Reactionaries In The Senate Were Making His Life Difficult.

My View Is Rather Than Just Rage At Your Impotence You Find The Best Way Of Achieving As Much As You Can Within Whatever Constraints There Are. It's Not The World I Would Have Created But You Do What You Can Within It.