People are obviously very interested in travel, including travel in Britain. Michael Portillo Read Quote
I think a lot of people of my generation have a certain guilt that, from the Sixties onwards, we started taking package holidays abroad and neglected our own country. Michael Portillo Read Quote
A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights. Michael Portillo Read Quote
People don’t understand it, but the most intense occasions in the House of Commons were the ones I enjoyed most. When events could go either way and you could find yourself out of a job by the end of the day, those were the times when you were most on a high. Michael Portillo Read Quote
I don’t think I’ve got a thick skin, but I’ve not felt particularly humiliated by the things which people think I would have felt humiliated by, such as losing my seat in 1997 and not being elected leader in 2001. In the second case, I felt relieved. Michael Portillo Read Quote
We in Britain do not have the same capabilities as the United States, but we are members of the United Nations Security Council. And we take our obligations and duties deriving from that very seriously. Michael Portillo Read Quote
We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary purposes and its intended beneficiaries. Michael Portillo Read Quote
Our situations… are very different. The nature of our politics is different. I don’t deny, though, that political cycles, which are observable in the United States, are sometimes observable here. Michael Portillo Read Quote
I have that normal male thing of valuing myself according to the job I do. Michael Portillo Read Quote
