James Callaghan

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.