It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
MARGARET THATCHERA week is a long time in politics.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
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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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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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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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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.
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The facts of life are conservative.
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The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.
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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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