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

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.

Immeasurable change is nobody's merit.

... that "take" was a word people used for those who had so little to give as to be immeasurable.

You truly help others working on yourself. Remember that the only power you have is over your own choices. You simply have no power to choose for others unless they allow you to.

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.