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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. -- Billy Bragg
In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war. -- Mark Burnett
When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue. -- Prince Andrew
Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls -- Margaret Thatcher
It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands. -- Pepe Eliaschev
I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself. -- Denis Thatcher
On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out. -- Jack Rowell
Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other date? -- Pepe Eliaschev
The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood. -- Jonathan Raban
We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty. -- Margaret Thatcher
As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere. -- Charles Kennedy
When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war. -- Scott Raab
Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways. -- Simon McBurney
Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world -- Jeremy Clarkson
I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand -- Tony Benn

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