Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society