It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.
Margaret ThatcherThe acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
Margaret ThatcherMost women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.
Margaret ThatcherThey [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.
Margaret ThatcherI had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.
Margaret Thatcher