Famous Quotes

Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

• 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.