I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that real incomes have fallen sharply, it is worth recalling that economic statistics under the Soviet Union were hardly more reliable than any other official statements. Moreover, a country that produces what no one wants to buy, and whose workers receive wages that they cannot use to buy goods they want, is hardly in the best of economic health.