The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

I will not change just to court popularity.

The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom.

The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister