I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

