You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.

I hate feminism. It is poison.

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

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

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We insist that the institutions of the European Community are managed so that they increase the liberty of the individual throughout the continent. These institutions must not be permitted to dwindle into bureaucracy. Whenever they fail to enlarge freedom the institutions should be criticised and the balance restored.