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

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?

We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

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.