Margaret Thatcher
"If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made."
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"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."