I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.

We live in a world where expectation exceed inspiration

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

i dont want to be compared to britney,ashlee,hilary or lindsay. i want to be compared to me.

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.