Famous Quotes

Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

• A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
• Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
• Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
• I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
• I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
• I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
• If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
• 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.
• If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
• It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
• It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
• It's a funny old world.
• 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.
• 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 percent.
• Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
• One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
• Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
• The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
• There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
• There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
• To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
• 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.
• You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.