“Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists’ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.”

“And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.”

“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”

“One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you–suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I’ll have a go, too.”

“If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.”

“Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species — it is the tigress and lioness in you — which tends to defend when attacked.”

“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.”

“I shan’t be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.”