It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

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

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.

A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

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