If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. – Margaret Thatcher
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldnt want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent. – 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
I love argument, I love debate. I dont expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, thats not their job. – Margaret Thatcher
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didnt know. – Russell Baker