The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.

Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.

It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.