“It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you - always.”
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Speech to Conservative Party Conference (12 October 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105763
Second term as Prime Minister
Context: In the Conservative Party, we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us, it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters. It is what you are and what you can do for our country that counts. That is our vision.

“It’s hard no matter where you come from. You have your own struggles.”
I do eat everything and luckily, don’t gain much weight.
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