I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.

Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely.

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

It’s less as if he sees me and more as if . . . something happens to him.

If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.

Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.