I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.

First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

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.

What is right for the family is right for Britain.

Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.

Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?