(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.

Life's greatest reward is life itself

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.

You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.

I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.

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