If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend

I love argument, I love debate. I dont expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, thats not their job

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent