Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions

I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.

We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.