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" I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. "

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" I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. "

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" No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. "

" Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. "

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" It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. "

" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "

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

" I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say. "

" Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose. "

" There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. "

" You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. "

" 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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" Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. "

" It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. "

" People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top. "

" If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. "

" No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent. "

" To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. "

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" If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim. "

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" I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it. "

" To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. "

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

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" The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. "

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

" There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. "

" I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together. "

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" There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty. "

" What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. "

" If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. "

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