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

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.

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

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