We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

The simple act of smiling at people makes the world a better place. Unless it's the day you decide to walk around with your dong out.

I think Common Core is a disaster. That doesn't mean there can't be a little tentacle left of the Department of Education, like 5 percent, just in terms of local coordination, perhaps.

I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

I am not a player anymore.

Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.

And lash the vice and follies of the age.