Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

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

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.

I believe we should continue to have a partnership of national states each retaining the right to protect its vital interests, but developing more effectively than at present the habit of working together.

It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

In order to unscramble some eggs the leader gotta have some balls