Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.

When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.

We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths this century of perhaps 100 million people. Against that doctrine was set a contrary, conservative belief in a law-governed liberty. It was this view which triumphed with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Since then, the Left has sought rehabilitation by distancing itself from its past.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.