One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.

...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.