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.

Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.