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

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.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.