When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.

You can't buck the market.

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

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.

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.