You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.

It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

Consensus negates leadership.

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.