Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."

Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the way to advance their interests. We do not need to beg people to trade with us - as long as we have something that people want, of a quality they expect and at a price they are prepared to pay.

No great goal was ever easily achieved.