I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!' 'I am homeless, the Government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing!
— Margaret Thatcher Contemporary

British PM, Iron Lady

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Interview with Women's Own magazine

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1987

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Strange & Unusual

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