“If you'd said to me when I was 21, 'You're going to get into parliamen...” — Ann Widdecombe Quote

If you'd said to me when I was 21, 'You're going to get into parliament, be a senior minister of state, shadow health secretary, shadow home secretary, a privy councillor, be endorsed by the Times as a candidate for Speaker, have four novels published, and then have great fun after you retire,' I'd have said, 'That sounds like a good life.'

If any further proof were needed that the Liberal Democrats live up to neither part of their name, then the treatment of Roman Catholic Robert Flello would have provided it. They were glad enough to have him when he defected from Labour but have now deselected him because he supports neither abortion nor gay marriage.

The Arctic has huge glaciers, frozen waterfalls and floating ice. This is scenery on which man has left no mark, which has stayed unchanged for centuries, wild, bleak, hauntingly beautiful; it is a part of God's creation we have made no effort to tame.

I'd rather form my own party than ever join Ukip. We could call it the Widdy Mob. I'm joking.

There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

Having an election with only one candidate running is impossible. This is not a democracy.

I want people to be mad as hell. Be mad as hell and work toward something. Find an issue and find a candidate that you believe in.