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.

Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.