In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.

I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

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'.

I was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no , no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes's not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he's reserved his position on the single currency.