In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.

You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.