One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers. — 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 ...… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number… — 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