I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.

If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.

This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.

I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.