If I was in standard class I would not do work because people would be looking over your shoulder the entire time. There would be noise. There would be distraction... They are totally different type of people.

I simply do not understand how Ken Clarke could lead today's Conservative Party to anything other than disaster.

The only black guy I ever saw in Conservative central office was the doorman - now even he has gone.

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

Mrs Thatcher has hijacked the Tory Party from the landowners and given it to the estate agents.

The right wing of the Conservative Party is one of the most vicious, prejudiced and neolithic animals in British politics.

We are a Party of the highest morals.

In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of good will who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. For this is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary block on socialism but to stop its onward march once and for all.

A great Party is not to be brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proven liar.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Why are Tories like walnuts? because they are troublesome to Peel.

I find most of them boring, petty, malign, clumsily conspiratorial and parochial to a degree that cannot be surpassed in any part of the United Kingdom.

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

Traditionally Tory leaders were said to 'emerge'. That is to say, the succession was rigged by a small section of the party, usually with Cabinet inspiration.

Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel betweent he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

There is the No Turning Back Group - I believe that was the cry of the Gadarene Swine.

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

I gave a figure, off the top of my head, of a billion to a billion-and-a-half. I stand by that figure.