If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
From Margaret Thatcher
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
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.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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