Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.

Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.

During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.