Max Hastings

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.