Norman Tebbit

“The BBC is a nest of vipers.”

“I grew up in the 1930s 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.”

“There has been a permissive society, in which people have been encouraged to believe that they are not responsible for their actions.”

“I haven't got a racist bone in my body. But I don't want my country to be flooded with people who have no allegiance to this country.”

“A large proportion of Britain's Asian population fail to pass the cricket test. Which side do they cheer for? It's an interesting test. Are you still harking back to where you came from or where you are?”

“I have no doubt that they will say that this is a Government of no compassion. No, it is a Government of no humbug.”

“I certainly believe that we have to be broad-minded, but I don't think we should be so broad-minded that our brains fall out.”

“The day I was lucky. The day the IRA were unlucky. Luck is with the brave.”

“Most of us would be horrified if a doctor told us that we had only a one in a hundred chance of survival, but we would be delighted if a lottery ticket gave us a one in a hundred chance of winning.”

“The Prime Minister is the only man who can read the runes.”

“I am not a Powellite, but I think that Enoch Powell was right on a great many things.”

“I've never been a feminist. I'm a masculinist. I believe in the rights of men.”