Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparing prices with other housewives in grocery stores near her comfortable house on Flood Street in the fashionable London district of Chelsea. Thatcher herself has said that "I'm a romantic at heart," and admits that "there are times when I get home at night, and everything has got on top of me, when I shed a few tears silently, alone...
...Rhodesia. You have got to go from where you are now: there is an internal settlement. There was an election, one person-one vote for four different parties. Where else would you get that in Africa? The problem isn't between whether you should have a white or black government, it's who shall be the black government. The whole illegality of Rhodesia was because they had not observed the six principles.* If those six principles are observed, there's no reason to retain the illegality, no reason to have the sanctions at all. So the Anglo...
...defense. We shall increase our defense expenditure. We don't feel we are bearing our proper share. Certainly our troops aren't properly equipped, they haven't got the proper supplies. We shall have an independent nuclear deterrent. Precisely what that deterrent will be is obviously a matter for further consideration. But the Russians have the big SS-8, -19 and -20 movable ballistic missiles, which are not in SALT. We have to have our deterrent to that. I'm very much for three deterrents: American, ours and the French. It's very much better...
...colossal outflanking movement right across the oil countries, across the Horn of Africa. The third way is subversion. I often say to some of our African friends, "Don't you ever forget, we were easy to throw out. Don't think the Communists will be if they got...
...nations and spend all your time criticizing it. The E.E.C. is free Europe getting together. Had we some vision like that after the First World War, we might never have had the Second. We couldn't get the whole of Europe, but at least we've got half of Europe free. At least my son does not have to go and fight as his father had to fight. Surely that is the most valuable thing of all, the reason for keeping Europe together . . . I loathe the bureaucratic trivialities of the E.E.C., and tell them so. What is important...