“Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.”

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

Well, there’s a lot to react against!

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.

A week is a long time in politics.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

It’s a funny old world.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, somebody of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.

Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

A leader can’t make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.