No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important that's what leadership's all about.

Books minister to our knowledge to our guidance and to our delight by their truth their uprightness and their art.

TRUE some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise and what you don't how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately instead of choosing flexibility President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.