Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

This lady is not for turning.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

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.