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The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

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[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

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I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

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The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

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Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

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I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.

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When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

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Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

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

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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

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I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.

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I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

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Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.

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Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

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We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

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At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

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I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.

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Home is where you come to when you've got nothing better to do.

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People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.

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