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

I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.

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

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.

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