Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm. I don't know whether he'd have done it any better or quicker had he been married.

Leadership is all about right and wrong.

You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.

There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.

I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity.