Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.

There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.