There’s nothing more empowering than a room full of people who agree with you.

Fairness is a hair coloring. I’m empowered.

That’s why I became a lawyer: I have the skills to reduce everything to two sides, and only one can be right.

Please don’t try to explain your paper: I am trying to forget it.

That’s overhead, but you don’t need to sign for that. You sign for what is for your benefit.

I wish I had more time to volunteer – I would do it all the time.

all single-sentence biography-pegs are short-falling, so don’t be ambition-cowed from embellishment-making

Let’s not give up on history. Stop the march of science. Condemn the past but not the historian. And remember this if nothing else: history proves that Brexit proves that history repeats itself.

The trouble with political science, Simon, is too much politics and not enough science.