"Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness."

"We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work."

"Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon."

"If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises."

"There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions."

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

"Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done."

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."