“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”
– Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
“Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’”
– Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
“We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.”
– Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
“Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite characteristic of them.”
– Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
“The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can’t succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that’s a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.”
– Phyllis Schlafly
“The United States is the world’s most stunning example of a nation that has peaceably and successfully assimilated people from many disparate cultures. So why are some people trying to separate us into factions, emphasizing what divides us instead of what unites us?”
– Phyllis Schlafly
“We certainly don’t need a committee of foreigners who call themselves “experts” to dictate our laws or customs. But that’s what this treaty and most other U.N. treaties try to do.”
– Phyllis Schlafly
“Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence of a government-sponsored religion in America. This religion, a cloudy mixture of new-age mysticism, Native American folklore, and primitive Earth worship, is being promoted and enforced by the Clinton administration in violation of our rights and freedoms.”
– Helen Chenoweth, U.S. Congressman (don’t call her “Congresswoman”)
“(Washington, D.C. is) too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged.”
– Anne M. Gorsuch, EPA Administrator
“Totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don’t at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s.”
– Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.