We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.

Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

A quick cure is a quack cure.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.