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

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.

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.

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

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.

Be effective not just efficient. Do right things not just things right.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Unless you learn to lead, you will always be at the mercy of someone else to guide you.

I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse Road is in the crucible of battle.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

The opposite of coherent is interesting.