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Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

Leftism in all its forms must be halted and turned back resoundingly.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.