Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.
Margaret ThatcherThe application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.
Margaret ThatcherMajor international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.
Margaret Thatcher