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

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

There is no such thing as society.

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.