"My scheme is if possible to govern this country [Ireland] without a party and make those that receive favours from th…"

"My view is to reduce the power of that office [Speaker of the Irish House of Commons] and to suffer no person or part…"

"The plan is undoubtedly the best that could be formed, the only difficulty will be to make it hold...the utmost of my…"

"Devonshire had been a moderate among men of great political passion. If scarcely a spectator in the play of events, h…"

"Unfortunately there was no really effective secondary leaders to deputize for Pitt. The obvious man for the role, the…"

"He was eminently a fit man for the post; his rank as a born leader of the whigs, his experience in the House of Commo…"

"The Marquis [of Hartington] was more fashioned [than his father], but with an impatience to do everything, and a fear…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"