"Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense."

"Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law."

"Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party."

"People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"The test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."