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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. "

Margaret Thatcher

Time

You

Woman

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Nothing

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Values

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

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World

Without

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" We Conservatives hate unemployment. "

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

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Socialism

Trying

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

" 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. "