Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

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.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.

I will not change just to court popularity.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.