Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

(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."

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I am not a compromiser on fundamentals.

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the hymn: 'When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died. My richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride.'

We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.