"We are very fortunate to have someone..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.
More by Margaret Thatcher
“When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.”
“The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.”
“I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.”
More on National Security
“This is my number one priority. I've got a lot of things on my plate. But my top priority is to defeat ISIL and to eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism that's been taking place around the world. Groups like ISIL can't destroy us. They can't defeat us. They don't produce anything. They're not an existential threat to us. It is very important for us to not respond with fear.”
“So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.”
“I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.”
More on Alliances
“They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.”
“To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.”
“It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own”