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

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

War inside countries is all too common.

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

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

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

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