Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.