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

I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.