I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!