It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
When I’m out of politics I’m going to run a business, it’ll be called rent-a-spine
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 set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.
I’m back… and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
When people are free to choose, they choose freedom
Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.
Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
I’m not hard I’m frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
If you just set out to be liked you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing.
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.
Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.
I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren’t.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.
It may be the cock that crows but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
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.
The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.
I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.
I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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.
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.
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.
The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions he had money as well.
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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.
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.