It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.

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

You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.

In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.