[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure..

I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselve….

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism..

Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November..

I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the wa….

The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps..

I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger..

Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no bet….

I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain….

Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention ….

We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. ….

I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless bigo….

I've never bashed a union in my life..

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it..

The word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, n….

If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I ca….

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian readin….

It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons..

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity..

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves..