I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political.
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.
When you’ve spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it’s exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.
The Third World is very much like the First World – just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
Advisers advise, and ministers decide.
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.
Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs.
Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.
If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership – you are practicing followership.
The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
Business success isn’t just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.
If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.
The battle for women’s rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women’s Libbers.
The lesson is clear. Inflation devalues us all.
Please don’t use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don’t care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.
You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.