Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.

It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the [European] Community. In case such a rumour may have reached your ears, Mr Chancellor... it is only fair that I should advise you frankly to dismiss it (as my own colleagues did, long ago). We shall judge what British interests are and we shall be resolute in defending them.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

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

There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.

Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice