Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.

Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.

...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.