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Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?
There's no smoke without mud being flung around.
One man's priority is another man's extravagence.
They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!
Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet.
Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.
It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.
The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.
Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.
If someone asks for a soft drink at a party, we no longer think he is a wimp.
I believe, AGW is simply a kind of collective hysteria with no basis in science.
Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.
the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.
The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.
There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.
I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.
If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.
The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.
Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.
The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household.
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.
By geo-historical standards, today's atmospheric CO2 levels are remarkably - indeed dangerously - low. We need CO2 in the air to support plant growth and agricultural yields, and more would be better.
The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.
There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.
The truth is that climate alarmism has become the most expensive, and the most wasteful, project in the history of the world. It is junk economics built on junk science. It amounts to no more than hot air, yet it looks set to beggar our grandchildren.
continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.
Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.
I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economic status of the family - of its members in relation to each other and of the whole unit in relation to the other units of which the community is made up.
Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.
the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.