To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls

Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.