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" You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. "
Margaret Thatcher
You
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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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" 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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" I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. "
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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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" I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. "
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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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" We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. "
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" Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. "
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" If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. "
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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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" Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd. "
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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 usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. "
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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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