Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

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.

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.

There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.

The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners.