I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

In politics, guts is all.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.