We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.

This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.

When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.

We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.

Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.