Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.

This lady is not for turning.

Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.