The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.

We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Obsolete weapons do not deter.