In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.

Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money.

I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.