Quotes By Margaret Thatcher

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

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

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.

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

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

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.

This lady is not for turning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

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

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

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

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

It's a funny old world.

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 want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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

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

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

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.