I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.