Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.

We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.