Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

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.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. 'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.

I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.