Thatcher Margaret

Downing Street Years

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  • b9671401421has quoted2 years ago
    ‘Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope’.
  • b9671401421has quoted2 years ago
    I was always asked how it felt to be a woman prime minister. I would reply: ‘I don’t know: I’ve never experienced the alternative.’
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted7 years ago
    Cancün was built in the 1970s, on a site (it is said) chosen by computer as likely to have maximum appeal to foreign tourists. The city was badly damaged by Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. So much for information technology.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted7 years ago
    To me consensus seems to be: 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’?
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted7 years ago
    In any case, there is one principle of diplomacy which diplomats ought to recognize more often: there is no point in engaging in conflict with a friend when you are not going to win and the cost of losing may be the end of the friendship.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted7 years ago
    To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the ‘U-turn’, I have only one thing to say. ‘You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.’ I say that not only to you, but to our friends overseas — and also to those who are not our friends.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted7 years ago
    rank-and-file unionists
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted7 years ago
    I came across the following lines from Kipling’s ‘Norman and Saxon’ in my old, battered collection of my favourite poet’s verse. The Norman baron with large estates is warning his son about our English forefathers, the Anglo-Saxons, and says:
    The Saxon is not like us Normans. His manners are not so polite.
    But he never means anything serious till he talks about justice and right.
    When he stands like an ox in the furrow with his sullen set eyes on your own,
    And grumbles, ‘This isn’t fair dealing’, My son, leave the Saxon alone.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted7 years ago
    The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.
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