If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage..

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….

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work..

I have the money and they won't get their hands on it..

Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours..

The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number but they have the right to live….

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them..

If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. ….

I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards..

My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because i….

The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns..

To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock..

Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against bot….

The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. Th….

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they….

I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the tru….

Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges..

Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then y….

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you..

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased..

The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particu….