Guide til England

Margaret Thatcher styrte Storbritannia med hard hånd på 1980-tallet. Hun vant kampen mot fagforeninger, Falklandskrigen og fikk fart i økonomien. Den harde og prinsippfaste statsministeren hadde mer baller enn de fleste av sine mannlige kollegaer. Her er noen minneverdige sitater:

Pennies don’t fall from heaven – they have to be earned here on earth.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.

My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.

Defeat? I do not recognise the meaning of the word.

I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty.

 Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean—power over people, power to the State.

There’s no such thing as society.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country’s flag.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib (Kvinnebevegelsen red anm.).

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