“The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers.”

They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared.

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit suicide.

Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses. I decided I wasn’t going to open an account. Put it the other way round – there was no reason that I should.

I’ve seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don’t want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.

If you want to uncover problems you don’t know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven’t examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.

This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic – providing opportunity and not guarantees.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands – though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.

The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.

Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said “we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want.” Of course, you just ignore that.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.