Norman Tebbit Quotes

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.

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

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.

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

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 reading champagne socialists are the norm.

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

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

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

[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 themselves. It is just that people get mislead

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

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

I've never bashed a union in my life.

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.