“I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand, ‘I have a problem, it is the government’s job to cope with it!’ or, ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!’ ‘I am homeless, the government must house me! And so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women,”
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”
“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”
“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.”
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.”
“To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.”
“There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.”
“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.”
“If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.”
“Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.”
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