They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.

It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.

I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism or other extremist organisations because, if you do that, they go underground and it gives them an excitement that they don't get if they are allowed to pursue their policies openly. We'll beat them into the ground on argument...

I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.

Once a woman is made man's equal, she becomes his superior.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives on as we breathe. It endures as we eat and sleep, work and rest, as we are born and as we pass away. The duty to Nature will remain long after our own endeavors have brought peace to the Middle East. It will weigh on our shoulders for as long as we wish to dwell on a living and thriving planet, and hand it on to our children and theirs.