Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman

We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.

All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’