Failure? The possibilities do not exist.
We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.
It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.
You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.
We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Russia is bent on world domination.
I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
I’ve learned one thing in politics. You don’t take a decision until you have to.
The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.
I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.
We Conservatives hate unemployment.
We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.
There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new – and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.