"I am not a consensus politician..." Margaret Thatcher said, in what was to become her most remembered statement. "I'm a conviction politician." The self-designation stuck: "conviction politics" became the brand mark of her style, as well known as Harold Wilson's belief that "ten days is a long time in politics" or Harold Macmillan's nonchalant shrugging off of a Cabinet crisis as a "little local difficulty." In these ways do politicians type-cast themselves.
- From Mrs. Thatcher's Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era by Peter Jenkins
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