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

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.