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It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at work. He later wrote of his astonishment at finding the that the British Parliament actually made laws and fixed punishments for their infraction - because unlike Muslims the English had not accepted a divine law revealed from heaven and therefore had to resort to such unsatisfactory expedients. Muslims still understand the expression 'the rule of law' very differently than do most Westerners.

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If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.

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There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.

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I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.

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In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.

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Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

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I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

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Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances

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We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

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Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

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The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

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I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

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I've got my teeth into him, and I'm not going to let go.

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Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

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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.

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We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

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In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.

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