"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
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"No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.“
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