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"I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look."
"I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqués, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years."
"Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true."
"If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts."
"I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together."
"We didn't have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business."
"I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty."
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
"If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you."
"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
"If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage."
"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."
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."
"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."
"What Britain needs is an iron lady."
"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."
"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."
"We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment."