(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.
Margaret ThatcherIf there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.
Margaret ThatcherGood Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.
Margaret ThatcherI cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.
Margaret Thatcher