Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.

I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.

I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts