Quote by Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

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 Thatcher. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990

More Quotes By Margaret Thatcher

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
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.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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.
Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.

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