I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

- David Steel

I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

- David Steel

Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent.

- David Steel

To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.

- David Steel

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

- David Steel

I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.

- David Steel