We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them you're not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.

There's no such thing as society.

Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths this century of perhaps 100 million people. Against that doctrine was set a contrary, conservative belief in a law-governed liberty. It was this view which triumphed with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Since then, the Left has sought rehabilitation by distancing itself from its past.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

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.