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You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.
Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.
If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.
America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.
The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.
It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.
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.
Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.
They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.
Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.
Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.
All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...
The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.
[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.
We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.
Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.
Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.
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.
Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
There is much to be said for trying to improve some disadvantaged people’s lot. There is nothing to be said for trying to create heaven on earth.
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.
In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.
There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.
The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty.
I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.
I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.
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.
During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.
People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.
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.
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.
Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.
When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.
When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.
Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.
It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.
I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly.
I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.