You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.

People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.

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

We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.