- 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.
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