Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

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.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

Secularism has no central goal, it's just promoting endless relativism. That's why there is a huge moral drift in the country. Everybody is infallible except the Pope, if you like.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

We did it! Britain is no longer a member of the European Union. By 'we' I mean the 17.4 million Britons who voted Leave, Nigel Farage who fought for the cause for 25 years, Brexit Party MEPs, Tory Party members who were brave enough to desert their party in droves at the Euro-elections and, of course, the Daily Express.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

Great political leaders risk unpopularity, patiently explain their case and confront prejudice, bigotry and vested interests.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

It is quite wrong that one group of people should regularly and deliberately flout the law, boast about it and get away with it.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

Cats are so wonderful because they're furry, purry and totally independent.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

If we deny our culture and become nothing and everything, that weakens us.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

Cats, unlike dogs, are independent creatures. They do not need walking and are content to be alone all day, providing they are fed.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man's evolution from grunting cave dweller to serious thinker, from cruelly retributive law to merciful law, from casual barbarism to care and compassion.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

People wanted to protest, and Ukip's a conduit for that.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

We have no blasphemy laws these days but with that freedom comes the responsibility which should always attend the exercise of free speech: truth, courtesy and an awareness of impact. It is the last of these which is so neglected by so much modern comedy.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

The child in the womb has no voice but Parliament's. Many MPs who voted for the 1967 Act did not think they were abandoning the unborn because they were fooled by the supposed safeguards. Now we know just how ineffective those safeguards are.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

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.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

Car horns were invented to warn other drivers of your presence, not to express displeasure or greetings.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

Not even the severest critics of Jeffrey Archer can deny his style.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

I don't analyse myself.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

On the whole, my disposition is to say yes, unless I've got good reason to say no, and I think that's being in public life.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

Example and general milieu, once considered so important in the nurture of children, are sacrificed on the altars of the false god we call free choice but which imprisons us all in a collective moral paralysis and delivers an anarchy that the State itself shrinks from challenging.

Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe

It's not a question of being out of touch or traditional. It's a question of wanting to preserve marriage as uniquely between a man and a woman. Gays get full civil rights with civil partnerships anyway.