No Time Like The Present

A Strong Man Who Has Known Power All His Life May Lose Respect For That Power. But A Weak Man Knows The Value Of Strength.

I Feel I Have Had A Very Interesting Life, But I Am Rather Hoping There Is Still More To Come. I Still Haven't Captained The England Cricket Team, Or Sung At Carnegie Hall!

When I Was Deputy Chairman I Could Travel From Glasgow To Edinburgh Without Leaving Tory Land. In A Two-week Period I Covered Every Constituency In Which We Had An Mp. There Were 14. Now We Have Only One. We Appear To Have Given Up.

But The Thing I Felt Most Strongly About, And Put At The End Of One Of The Prison Diaries, Was Education.

I Think When You've Lost An Election By 179, There's Going To Be A Period Of Time After Eighteen Years In Government When You Can't Do Anything Right, And People Just Kick You For The Sake Of It, Will Never Admit They Voted Conservative.