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

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society - from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.