Margaret Thatcher

No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well."
TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World (6 January, 1980)
(source: Wikipedia)

"I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together. "
TV Interview for BBC (17 December, 1984)
(source: Wikipedia)

"Singapore's success shows us that:
-A country's wealth need not depend on natural resources, it may even ultimately benefit from
their absence
-The greatest resource of all is Man
-What government has to do is to set the framework for human talent to flourish. "
(pg. 118 Thatcher, Margaret (2002). Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-095912-6., source: Wikipedia)