I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

I haven't come to the conclusion that centrist politics is wrong or dead. On the contrary. I think it's very much alive - but it needs to be given a renewal, a revival, and a muscularity which it presently lacks.

I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.