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

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

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

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Both the President and Mr Gorbachev have said that they want to see a world without nuclear weapons. I cannot see a world without nuclear weapons. Let me be practical about it. The knowledge is there to make them. So do not go too hard for that pie in the sky because, while everyone would like to see it, I do not believe it is going to come about.