In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

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.

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go.

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

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

If is a very big preposition.