I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.

We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then have been morally right to have handed Hitler control of one of the most terrible weapons man has ever made? Would not that have been the one way to ensure that the thousand year Reich became exactly that? Would not unilateralism have given to Hitler the world domination he sought?

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.