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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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Why do you climb philosophical hills Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

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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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A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.

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Her guidance and advice are always most acute and as prime minister I was privileged to benefit from both enormously.

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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

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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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I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

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The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

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I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

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We didn't have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business.

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

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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher praised the pontiff's role in toppling communism. Millions owe him their freedom and self-respect. The whole world is inspired by his example, ... His life was a long struggle against the lies employed to excuse evil. By combating the falsehoods of communism and proclaiming the true dignity of the individual, his was the moral force behind victory in the Cold War.

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Her supporters call her The Iron Lady, ... have brought equal competence, strength and courage to everything that they do.

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If you just 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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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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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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must be allowed to return to his own country forthwith.

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

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

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

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a great loss not only to Jordan, not only to the Middle East, but I think to the world as a whole.

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