A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go.

Disunity costs votes.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Life is full of surprises.