Quotation for Today, Thursday May 7

“Two thirds of the time I could have followed her to the ends of the Earth, the other third she could be extraordinarily irritating and frustrating. In retrospect, I think these were two sides of the same coin. Like Churchill or De Gaulle, great people have an extraordinary willpower. When they are right they can achieve extraordinary things, but when they are wrong they sometimes make very foolish mistakes. I doubt if Britain could have achieved the former without occasionally having to live with the latter. All in all, it was a price well worth paying”

Sir Malcolm Rifkind, politician on Margaret Thatcher

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