We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

It's a funny old world.