The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

Other countries have far greater problems than we have.

Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.

I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.