Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

A quick cure is a quack cure.

It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.

To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

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.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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