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

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

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