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It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

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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 I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.

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There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

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A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

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I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

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Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

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Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

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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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If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

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[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

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Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

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There are too few rich and too few profits.

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It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

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There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

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There is no such thing as society.

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Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

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The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

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