Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.

Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.

To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.

There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

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