People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.

Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

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

... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.

There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.