One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?

When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.

Obsolete weapons do not deter.