The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.

Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.

I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.

I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.

On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

I never had any run in with the law.

Islam in the Arab world coexists with Indonesian, Pakistani and Turkish Islam. There is limited solidarity, even within the Arab world.