Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you and a waste of time when people don't agree with you.
Ken Livingstone 03/2003
Category: Conviction
Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.
David Lloyd George
To Dingle Foot.
Category: Conviction
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
Category: Conviction
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
Category: Conviction
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 01/1941
Category: Conviction
It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.
Margaret Thatcher 25/02/1979
Category: Art of Government, Conviction
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher 04/04/1982
Category: Conviction
To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.
Margaret Thatcher 01/11/1981
Category: Conviction
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called 'rent-a-spine'.
Margaret Thatcher
Category: Conviction, Courage
