Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.

It's a funny old world.

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.

We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.