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

Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.

I owe a great deal to the church for everything in which I believe. I am very glad that I was brought up strictly. I was a very serious child. There was not a lot of fun and sparkle in my life.

We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.