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

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.

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

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

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 can't legislate to change human nature.