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.

You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

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.