“Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.”

Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

Well, there’s a lot to react against!

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.

A week is a long time in politics.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

It’s a funny old world.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, somebody of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.

I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.

Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.

The facts of life are conservative.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Fathers should endeavor to prove that good men still exist by teaching their daughters how a woman should be treated through leading by example.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

The entire country is rallying behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and there is no alternative to Modiji.

Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.

You don’t need a team leader, you need quality.

True redemption is when guilt leads to good.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.