"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

"I am not a fan of the welfare state. I think it is an expensive way of trying to do things which could be done better by voluntary effort."

"To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches."

"I just owe my father everything. He brought me up to believe that I was always going to be able to do anything I wanted to do. He was a very remarkable man."

"We need to get rid of the idea that there is a soft option."