"Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage."

"What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable."

"The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives."

"Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about."

"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."

"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself."

"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business."