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

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

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.

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 hear with your ears, but you listen with an open mind.

Cats strongly believe that everywhere is designed for their comfort!

Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.