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

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.

There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.