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.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.