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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

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Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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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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We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.

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They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.

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I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have genuinely played the lion's part. They are ready to recognise that those who create the wealth - and I mean not only material but intellectual wealth - enrich the whole nation.

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I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

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

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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

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

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It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!

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No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

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Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.

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John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

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I remain totally convinced that when children are young, however busy we may be with the practical duties inside the home, themost important thing of all is to devbote enoughh time and care to their needs and problems.

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

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We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

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The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms - in this case showed real determination in conducting it.

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