I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.

Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

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

We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.

We have become a grandmother.