Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

You can't lead from the crowd.

I've got my teeth into him, and I'm not going to let go.

It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.

[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.

It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.