Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead

The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.

The existence of guilty sense is soimportant in education and religion.

Always try to avoid repeating the same mistakes

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

There were two kinds of women: those who wear nail polish and those who don't. Which do you prefer?

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!