I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know

If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.