The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
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I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
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Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
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It's a funny old world.
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Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers.
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.
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If you want something said, ask a man if you want something done, ask a woman.
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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
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I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
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This lady is not for turning.
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I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
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If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
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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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