While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.

When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.

I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.