[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!

What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.

Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.