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

The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.

In order to unscramble some eggs the leader gotta have some balls