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.

Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls

I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.