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Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
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I will not change just to court popularity.
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I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.
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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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Consensus is the absence of leadership.
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I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded
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We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.
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[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.
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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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The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
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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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Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.
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Hope is no basis for a defense policy.
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I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.
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