It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded

The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.

This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.

The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.

The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.