Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

Russia is bent on world domination.

Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.