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

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

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.

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.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

No music in the raindropsNo clouds with silver liningTorrents of sorrowsHorror in streams

It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

Get a dream, hold on to it and shoot for the sky.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service