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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
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I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.
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I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.
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Hope is no basis for a defense policy.
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Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.
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Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
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I never hugged him, I bombed him.
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[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.
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