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.

There are no instant solutions.

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

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

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.

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.