What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

- Denis Thatcher

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

- Denis Thatcher

I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated.

- Denis Thatcher

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

- Denis Thatcher

And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.

- Denis Thatcher

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.

- Denis Thatcher

More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

- Denis Thatcher

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

- Denis Thatcher