It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman'. I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.

If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.

ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.

I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas?

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.