Margaret Thatcher Quotes

» In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

» Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

» I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

» 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.

» If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

» I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

» If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

» What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

» A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

» No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

» What Britain needs is an iron lady.

» Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

» We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

» I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

» Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

» Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

» I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

» I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

» If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

» If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

» Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

» Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

» To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

» You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

» You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

» If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

» It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

» If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

» There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

» I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

» I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

» It's a funny old world.

» To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

» I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

» Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

» The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

» I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

» Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

» I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

» This lady is not for turning.

» I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

» It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

» Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

» Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

» To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

» Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

» Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

» I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

» There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

» It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

» There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

» Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

» Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

» You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

» It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

» If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

» One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

» People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

» No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

» No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor or Foreign Secretary, not the top jobs. Anyway I wouldn't want to be Prime Minister. You have to give yourself 100%.

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