The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions.

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.

And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.