When you're in a hole, stop digging.

I’ve always criticised American policy when I’ve disagreed with it. Just as I’ve criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can’t be created by law, that’s why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it’s essentially a lawyer’s approach.

I’ve got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it’s a blowlamp.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can’t ever hope to solve problems.

Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.

It will squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.

She approaches the problem of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic strip.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.