Britain deserves better than it has today - it is our destiny to
provide it. We must prove that we are equal to that challenge.
I believe that the people should be big. The state should be small.
Our party will be internationalist in outlook. My parents were
immigrants. They saw Britain as a beacon in a dark and threatening
world.
I wasn't born into the Conservative Party. I chose it. I chose it
because I thought, as I still do, that it offers Britain its brightest
future.
I know what causes crime. Criminals.
[on Tony Blair] This grammar school boy will take no lessons from that public school boy on the importance of children from less privileged backgrounds gaining access to university.
One of the pieces of advice which I most regret giving occurred during a conversation that I had with Alastair Campbell, when John Smith was leader of the Labour Party... which was that the Labour Party would never win an election until they had a leader who looked and sounded like a Tory.