Margaret Thatcher
sitemanagerIf you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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…
Margaret Thatcher
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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.
Margaret Thatcher
Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
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.
Margaret Thatcher
On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.
Margaret Thatcher
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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.
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…
Margaret Thatcher
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing.
Margaret Thatcher
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.