To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.

Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.