I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

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

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty.

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

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