It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.

John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.

The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.