I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.

Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.

We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

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.