Margaret Thatcher Quotes

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

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

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up aga...

I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functi...

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that is not enough that you hav...

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

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they s...

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

If you just set out to be liked you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and yo...

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

The lady's not for turning.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you wou...

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they att...

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

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and f...

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you wou...

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

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

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

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of som...

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) I...

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

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

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

It's a funny old world.

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Ret...

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

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

Thought Leadership “The Downing Street Years” Book by Margaret Thatcher“I have a habit of comparing ...

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

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's no...

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of p...

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be cons...

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing...

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things t...

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

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not alway...

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

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

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

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care mor...

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the gov...

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

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...

I will not change just to court popularity.

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

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

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time and suddenly all ...

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

If it's me against 48 I feel sorry for the 48.