Power is the best shield that the disordered personality can conceive against being revealed as the laughing stock he secretly suspects himself to be.

The cream of a generation was lost in the mud of Flanders. Etonians went over the top with the Illiad in their knapsacks and Athens in their hearts. To protest that such men were statistically not even a trace among the British soldiers killed is to miss the point. At all times the great majority of people have been ignorant of the classics; but the men who mattered; who governed, declared wars and resisted innovation have always had Latin and Greek.

Even Mahatma Gandhi – hardly a comfortable character – always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.

The Queen is so poor she has to spend her own money.

I am profoundly saddened and angered by the conduct that is alleged.

I totally accept accountability for the performance at this company,

This 'hard' four o'clock cutoff would effectively eliminate the potential for 'late trading' through intermediaries that sell fund shares,

These results, while disappointing, are in line with our announcement on July 18,

We don't want somebody else to do what we think we can do for ourselves, ... Having said that, we will always be open to any legitimate offer of interest.

We will be asking the NYSE some further questions, based on information we've received,