"Consensus is the negation of leadership...." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher

“Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.”

“I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America.”

“There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.”

“To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.”

“I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.”

“It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.”

“What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?”

“I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then I think that we move the country forward and when we are divided and our politics is focused on dividing, then I think we're less successful, not just from the perspective of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but from the perspective of the nation as a whole.”

“Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.”