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

Margaret Thatcher

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" Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted. "

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" If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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