We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.
The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
You learn to speak by speaking to study by studying to run by running to...
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated...
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will...
Use a thousand ways to boost rural income and decrease peasants' burden.
