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.

Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet.

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.

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.

Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.

If someone asks for a soft drink at a party, we no longer think he is a wimp.

One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.