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The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
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I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
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If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
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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 exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.
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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.
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I will not change just to court popularity.
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When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.
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When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
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The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.
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Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.
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