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" Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd. "

Margaret Thatcher

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" What Britain needs is an iron lady. "

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" This lady is not for turning. "

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" One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. "

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" I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. "

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

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" To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects. "

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