Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

We would essentially be cutting our budget for them. There's not a thing on here that seems like an ounce of fat. ... Our job is to go out and fight for this tooth and nail.

The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

Exercise: you don't have time not to