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

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.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.

It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at work. He later wrote of his astonishment at finding the that the British Parliament actually made laws and fixed punishments for their infraction - because unlike Muslims the English had not accepted a divine law revealed from heaven and therefore had to resort to such unsatisfactory expedients. Muslims still understand the expression 'the rule of law' very differently than do most Westerners.