Life is full of surprises.

I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.