We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.

People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

[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.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

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