former Israeli foreign minister Imman

"A man who builds himself a throne of bayonets cannot sit on it."

Dean Inge

"It [Falklands conflict] began farcically. Journalists whom I met twice a day got a lot of fun out of the Latin Steptoe and Son who had landed on South Georgia in the preliminary pinprickings and began to demolish an old whaling station. Then, on Friday, April 2, it ceased to be funny any more. The invasion left the Government shell-shocked and Parliament outraged."

Margaret Thatcher' press secretary Sir Bernard Ingham

"Ceaucescu is a madman. His wife, thirsty for power, is also mad, and his son is an idiot. And it's these three people who are being allowed to freely torture 23 million people." Playwright, 17.12.89, morning after Timisoara massacre. 4630 bodies in a mass grave.

Eugene Ionesco