3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher 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.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.
3 December 2020 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 you pretty near.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions he had money as well.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher 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.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
3 December 2020 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 election.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher 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.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
