I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

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

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.