To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. |
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past. |
We didn't have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business. |
We have become a grandmother |
We have lost a great president and a great man, and I have lost a great friend, |
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. |
What Britain needs is an iron lady. |
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. |
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing. There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top. |
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. |
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. |
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. |
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. |
[But even some leading politicians of the Right have had doubts:] Nothing is more insidious than a fashionable consensus, ... Surely there is something logically suspect about a solution which is correct whatever the problem. |
[Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher praised the pontiff's role in toppling communism.] Millions owe him their freedom and self-respect. The whole world is inspired by his example, ... His life was a long struggle against the lies employed to excuse evil. By combating the falsehoods of communism and proclaiming the true dignity of the individual, his was the moral force behind victory in the Cold War. |