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" We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. "
Margaret Thatcher
Campaign
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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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" It's a funny old world. "
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" It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. "
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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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" Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. "
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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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" 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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" The battle for women's rights has been largely won. "
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" Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. "
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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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" What Britain needs is an iron lady. "
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Needs
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" Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. "
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" Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. "
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Earth
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" To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. "
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" I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say. "
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Long
" We Conservatives hate unemployment. "
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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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Compromise
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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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Sit
Me
" Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. "
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" I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. "
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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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Good And Evil
I Am
" Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. "
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History
Europe
Philosophy
" Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. "
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Road
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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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" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "
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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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" 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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