The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

That's an extraordinary occasion and an historic one,

It's pretty exciting. I'm looking forward to it. I've never been out of the country really, except for the border of Mexico. I want to see how other people do what they do.