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When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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More quotes by Margaret Thatcher
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.
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No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.
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I don't want to fight any wars if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.
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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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Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
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If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman
Margaret Thatcher
I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
Margaret Thatcher
To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.
Margaret Thatcher
I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.
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When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.
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You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.
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The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
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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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In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'
Margaret Thatcher
I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.
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There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.
Margaret Thatcher
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher
I hate feminism. It is poison.
Margaret Thatcher
The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.
Margaret Thatcher
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
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