When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.

What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel comfortable. I’m sorry, we as a group we’re feeling….' One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. Thoughts and ideas. That interests me. Ask me what I’m thinking.

People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.