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The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Consensus is the negation of leadership.
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I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.
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Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.
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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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We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies.
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It's okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in front of a mirror all day long.
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It's a funny old world.
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Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.
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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
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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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The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
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There are too few rich and too few profits.
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I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.
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I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
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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.
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We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.
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