"I am not prepared to sit by and see this country slide into the socialist abyss."

"I am not a bully. I am a realist."

"My policies are based not on some economic theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up to believe: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by for a r…"

"Socialists cry 'Power to the people', and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they mean - a new tyranny. But we say 'Power to the people' and we mean the power to choose, the powe…"

"The British people want to be free to make their own choices, to take their own risks, and to reap their own rewards."