I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I...

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I want my money back!

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

I’m not a good butcher but I’ve had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

To Ronnie: Well done, thou good and faithful servant,

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families

must be allowed to return to his own country forthwith.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any...

old, frail and sick.