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

Margaret Thatcher

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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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" Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. "

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

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" It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. "

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" You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. "

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" The battle for women's rights has been largely won. "

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" I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. "

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" 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. "

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" You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. "

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

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

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

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

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" I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. "

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

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" If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. "

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" Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. "

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" Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. "

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