We didn't have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.