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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research
There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.
The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.
I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.
This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child
I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there.
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.
Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.
I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.
I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.
The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.
I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.
We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.
Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.
90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.
Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century
Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.
An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.
There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.