Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

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

It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

I am not a compromiser on fundamentals.

You can't lead from the crowd.

We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.