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.

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

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.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.