Harold MacMillan

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.