I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.

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.

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

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

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

The market has no morality

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason the world hates the truth.

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

The plants and flowersI raised about my hutI now surrenderTo the willOf the wind

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

Put the hay down where the sheep can reach it.

Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.

respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.