Harold MacMillan

"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."

"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."

"It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter."

"At home, you always have to be a politician when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."

"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."