“No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.”

— Margaret Thatcher

TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World (6 January 1980) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=104210
First term as Prime Minister

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