We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows, these are cogent enough. It rests essentially on the view that the free market is the only safe way of ensuring that productive effort is directed towards supplying what individuals actually want, and in a way which secures the dignity and independence of the worker.