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"It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us."
"One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'"
"We have become a grandmother."
"I never hugged him, I bombed him."
"It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one."
"Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry."
"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."
"One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'"
"I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life."
"We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself."
"It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments."
"We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states."
"I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it."
"A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."
"Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life."
"The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to undermine America when it mattered, had been sanitized; and the role of Mr. Gorbachev, who had failed spectacularly in his declared objective of saving communism and the Soviet Union, had been absurdly misunderstood."
"Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true."
"There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them."
"Don't Cry For Me, Argentina"
"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."