You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

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

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.