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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. "

Margaret Thatcher

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" 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. "

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" The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. "

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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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" What Britain needs is an iron lady. "

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

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" We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. "

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

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

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" 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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" This lady is not for turning. "

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

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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 you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. "

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" Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. "

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

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" I owe nothing to Women's Lib. "

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

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

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Good Intentions

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

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" Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. "

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

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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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" Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. "

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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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" 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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