To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.

Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.

What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?

There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.