Quotes By Margaret Thatcher

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

This lady is not for turning.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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

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

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

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.

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 you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

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

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

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

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

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.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

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

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