"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

"There are still some people who believe that you can get something for nothing. You can't."

"I believe that the role of government is to ensure that people have the freedom to make their own choices, and then to live with the consequences of those choices."

"I stand before you today in my green suit, a colour which has been described as a colour of hope, and I have hope for Britain."

"Pennies don’t fall from heaven—they have to be earned here on earth."