Obsolete weapons do not deter.

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

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

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

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.