"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames, they would say it was because I couldn’t swim."

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

"What is success? It is being able to live your life in your own way, by your own rules, and to achieve your own goals."

"The government has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves. If government wants to spend more, it can only do so by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. And it's no goo…"

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."