If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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I should therefore prefer to restrict my guidelines to the following:
Don't believe that military interventions, no matter how morally justified, can succeed without clear military goals
Don't fall into the trap of imagining that the West can remake societies
Don't take public opinion for granted – but don't either underrate the degree to which good people will endure sacrifices for a worthwhile cause
Don't allow tyrants and aggressors to get away with it
And when you fight – fight to win.
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My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.
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I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.
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In a decision of the utmost gravity, Labour voted to give up Britain' s independent nuclear deterrent unilaterally. Labour's defence policy, though "defence" is scarcely the word, is an absolute break with the defence policy of every British Government since the Second World War. Let there be no doubt about the gravity of that decision. You cannot be a loyal member of NATO while disavowing its fundamental strategy. A Labour Britain would be a neutralist Britain. It would be the greatest gain for the Soviet Union in forty years. And they would have got it without firing a shot.
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I, personally, have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that the death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty.
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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The President of the Commission, m. Delors, said at a press conference the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the Community, he wanted the Commission to be the Executive and he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate. No. No. No.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.
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I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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