The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

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

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

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

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