Margaret Thatcher Quotes on Diplomacy

6 quotes

  1. I have thought long and deeply about the post of Foreign Secretary and have decided to offer it to Peter Carrington who - as I am sure you will agree - will do the job superbly.

  2. I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together.

  3. We could have stopped this, we could still do so... But for the most part, we in the west have actually given comfort to the aggressor.

  4. I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.

  5. Patched-up diplomatic solutions designed to answer the needs of the moment rarely last, and as they unravel they can actually make things worse.

  6. Brezhnev took Afghanistan. / Begin took Beirut. / Galtieri took the Union Jack. / And Maggie, over lunch one day, / Took a cruiser with all hands. / Apparently, to make him give it back.

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