Consensus is the negation of leadership.

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.