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.

Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.

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.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

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.

There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.