If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.