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.

I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.

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

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 can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

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

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.