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

Margaret Thatcher

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

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

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" I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. "

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

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

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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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" Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. "

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

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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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