Ann Widdecombe Quotations

I think we have lost sight of something of importance, something which has always been at the heart of Conservatism which is the family - functioning as a family unit with legal rights and responsibilities and being able to make its choices and let its children grow strong,

I think we've fallen away from that in recent years and I think Edward is quite right to say 'hang on, this is always been at the centre of Conservatism'.

It is only by maintaining the current law and making it the norm that adoption takes place by married couples and stability for an adopted child can be achieved.

People are being freed who shouldn't be. While supervision starts off pretty tight, it becomes more lax.

I wish I had put a bet on, but thought it might have been disrespectful to the Holy Spirit.

where hard-working people keep more of their own money, where we encourage enterprise and prosperity.

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.

I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.

In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.

We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of work. If we abolished ill-health we would put all the nurses and doctors out of work. Will anybody argue that we should preserve crime and ill-health in order to keep people in jobs?

Either we are serious about being in government or we are not. If we are we must go for Ken Clarke.

As far as I'm concerned, William has been an excellent leader. He's a staying leader.