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
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides
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I'm fine, I'm fine. I feel fine. The doctors assessed her this morning and say she is OK.
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We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism...and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.
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Attila the Hen.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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Being prime minister is a lonely job.... you cannot lead from the crowd.
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On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns
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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
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Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.
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If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
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Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
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For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.
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Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end
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I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job
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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
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I'm not quite sure of his place in history. History will determine that.
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