Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.