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
We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us.… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country. — 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
I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In my work, you get used to criticisms. Of course you do, because there are a lot of people trying to get… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’ — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If… — 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