What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

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

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

I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the Budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible: I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest.