The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.

It's a funny old world.

I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.

I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

I never hugged him, I bombed him.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.