Don't Cry For Me, Argentina

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.

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

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