[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Yes, the Commission wants to increase its powers, Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
