The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of the UK. And they can acquire more advanced technology. Indeed, unless that happens soon the gulf between the European and US capabilities will yawn so wide that it will not be possible to share the same battlefield. Alas, I do not think that sharing battlefields with our American friends - but rather disputing global primacy with them - is what European defence plans are truly about.

The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

I am not a compromiser on fundamentals.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.