It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about t... - Margaret Thatcher

"People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top."

"It's a funny old world."

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."

"When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine"