Meeting someone does not mean you're endorsing them.
— Jacob Rees-Mogg
You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.
Mark Carney is one of the enemies of Brexit. He has opposed it consistently.
I trust my electors. I see them in weekly meetings. I'm their advocate, I'm there to take up their case. I'm not there to decide whether they've got a good case or a bad case. And I think that if you trust people, they're more likely to trust you back.
I believe that politicians should implement the promises that they've given in manifestos.
I'm not interested in the past, I'm interested in the future. Europe is past.
We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers.
I'm not a moderniser. I accept that things like escalators do need an upgrade every now and then, but I think the fundamental principles of Conservatism have a long thread running through them that does not need to be modernised.
Tony Blair adopted the accent of the audience he was speaking to, which worked very well initially, but then voters began to perceive him as phoney. The 'man of the people' act is the height of condescension.
I went into investments out of interest and thought I knew a little. The longer I've been involved, the less I realise I'd known.
Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.
I like some vegetables.
I'm not a great beer drinker, but I do like Butcombe, probably because it's made of good Somerset water.
Fundamental protections, the assumption of innocence, trial by jury, and the right to appear before a court have all been sacrificed on the altar of the E.U. superstate.
Extradition treaties date back at least to 1259 B.C., when the Hittite King Hattusili the Third and Ramesses the Second signed a treaty of 'peace and brotherhood for all time.' They have become more commonplace as international travel has become easier and sensibly streamlined.
Proper British nannies put the child ahead of everything. They do not like to see children used as accessories, carried around in slings for the convenience of the parents' social life. They want a proper set-up, where the baby is rested and happy, not shown off to all-comers.
Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.
I would rather my constituents were warm and prosperous than cold and impoverished as we are overtaken by emerging markets who understandably put people before polar bears.
I think it's true - economically, you want to bake a bigger cake rather than slicing up an existing cake differently.
You've got to judge people, ultimately, by their actions rather than their words.
I can't see the point in being in politics if you're not yourself. If you're simply interested in implementing other people's policies, then you should become a civil servant. If you have ideas and some form of ideology, then it's exciting because you can argue forward.
If we want to change a law, we can do that in Parliament. That is a democratic right that has often been taken from the E.U.
I would always vote for Tory candidates in the United Kingdom, and I would probably be Republican if I was an American.
We need to be free to do deals with the rest of the world.
I'm of the opinion that one of the perks of being in Parliament is not having to do the school run.
One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.
I was left £50 when I was ten by a fairly distant cousin, which my father invested in GEC shares on my behalf. I became interested in the market and was given some more shares by my father, which is when I began looking to see how the shares were performing and learning how to read company reports, balance sheets, and so on in order to gauge that.
I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.
I very much like potatoes.
I think that conservative principles have a broad appeal, and you should state them boldly, and the point of a Conservative election is to do conservative things, not to do Labour things but slightly less damaging.
In England and, later, the United Kingdom, Habeas Corpus is a right of great antiquity: Anyone who is arrested must be brought before a court, but this does not apply in continental countries.
Constitutionally, a revising chamber is useful and important. The first occasion I know of in history when the Lords fulfilled this role was in 1539 when Henry VIII's act of proclamations was neutered by their lordships so effectively that the Act was repealed in 1547.
A nanny, by being the child's doughty defender, may put sensitive noses out of joint.
Press freedom has great virtues. It is not about irresponsible scandal-mongering, although that may be part of the picture. It is a means of revealing wrongdoing.
To have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow citizens, I think, is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are.
The BBC always wants to blame things on Brexit. I'm not saying this is a conspiracy: I'm saying it is a fact of life.
If we say to the E.U. our backstop position is that we will be the vassal state, why should the E.U. make any effort to make any arrangement other than us to be a vassal state?
I think, with a negotiation, you have to go in knowing what you want, knowing what your bottom line is, and knowing what you might accept if you're absolutely pushed.
The E.U. is a backward-looking project based on an economic model of the 20th century.
I would almost certainly vote for Trump if I was American.
It is of considerable importance that politicians stick to their commitments or do not make such commitments in the first place.
When I'm overseas, I suspect I look like Mr. Bean.
I've never put all my eggs in one basket, and I've always been cautious.
The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.
It is not for me to enforce my morals on others.
Unsalted butter is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Not everyone will always agree with me.
It is obviously sensible the crossing of a border ought not to protect a criminal from the consequences of his crime.
Although nannies who cover more than one generation are rare, those like Veronica Crook - who looked after me and now looks after my four children - are pearls of great price. They provide a continuity and stability for a family that is of inestimable value for the child and, indeed, the man.
The biographies of the great rarely report much about the nanny, but for many, she will have played a crucial role in their formative years.
