Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.

You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

The market has no morality

It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

It's impossible that the improbable will never happen.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.