Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

"Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas."
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"Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas."
Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher : The Greatest Speeches
"Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?"
Margaret Thatcher
"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."
Margaret Thatcher
"“Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.”"
Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher : The Greatest Speeches
"“Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?”"
Margaret Thatcher
"“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”"
Margaret Thatcher
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
Margaret Thatcher
"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
Margaret Thatcher
"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."
Margaret Thatcher
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."
Margaret Thatcher
"It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake."
Margaret Thatcher
"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."
Margaret Thatcher
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well."
Margaret Thatcher
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money."
Margaret Thatcher
"There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it."
Margaret Thatcher
"One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex."
Margaret Thatcher
"You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure."
Margaret Thatcher
"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend."
Margaret Thatcher
"What Britain needs is an iron lady."
Margaret Thatcher
"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."
Margaret Thatcher
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