We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

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

I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded

As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette.