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Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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I never hugged him, I bombed him.
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[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.
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In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.
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I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.
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I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?
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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.
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A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you. We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.
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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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Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice
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And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.
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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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