I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.