People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.

For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

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

We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.