If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.

You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

There are too few rich and too few profits.

... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.

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.