You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.

If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you.

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.

The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.

During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.