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The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.

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I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

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The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

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If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

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In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.

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The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

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I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.

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Life's greatest reward is life itself

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My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.

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Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.

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We have become a grandmother.

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If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

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There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.

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When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

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The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.

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No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

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Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

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If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

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