Kenneth Baker

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.