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I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.
Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.
We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.
I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.
I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!
Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.
I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.
I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.
If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.
We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we're also in turmoil as a result of this result.
The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.
The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.
The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.
It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.
Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.
I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.
There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.
When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.