Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy.

People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.

There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.