Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.