People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.