Margaret Thatcher Quotes

It's a funny old world... view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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.. view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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... view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions.. view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

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... view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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... view

By: Margaret Thatcher

I owe nothing to Women's Lib... view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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... view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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... view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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... view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

If you want something said, ask a man.. view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus... view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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... view

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher

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

By: Margaret Thatcher