Gradual and moderate warming brings benefits as well as incurring costs. These benefits and costs will not, of course, be felt uniformly throughout the world; the colder regions of the world will be more affected by the benefits, and the hotter regions by the costs.

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy.

The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.