Quote by Margaret Thatcher

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wou

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This quote suggests that if someone launches a personal attack instead of presenting a logical political argument, it signifies their lack of valid points to support their perspective. The speaker finds comfort and even joy in such attacks as it exposes the weakness of the attacker's position. It implies that resorting to personal attacks is a way for individuals to compensate for their intellectual deficiencies in political discourse.

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