I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

You can't buck the market.

Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.

Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.