How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.

What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.

My job is to stop Britain from going red.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.