"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."

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"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."

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"I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money."

Beryl Bainbridge, English Novelist

Home, Men, Money, Children

"No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists."

Jon Ronson, Welsh Journalist

Home, People, America, Heroes

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

James Madison, American President

Home, Danger, Liberty, Loss

"We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs."

John Bonham, British Musician

Home, Months, Songs, Writing

"I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read."

John Green, American Author

Home, Memory, Comfort, Life

"My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked."

Madeleine Stowe, American Actress

Home, Film, Jokes, Race

"America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live."

Rick Allen, American Musician

Home, Time, America, Land

"The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages."

Fredric Jameson, American Critic

Home, War, Achievement, Effort

"My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property."

John Breaux, American Politician

Home, Property, Want

"I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't."

Louise Woodward, British Celebrity

Home, Thought

Explore more quotes by Harold MacMillan

"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough."

God

"To be alive at all involves some risk."

Risk

"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."

Government

"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."

Living

"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

Man

"No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs."

Man

"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."

Creativity

"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."

Skepticism

"(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion."

Diplomacy

"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."

Maturity