I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. – Margaret Thatcher
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. – 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. – Margaret Thatcher
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. – Margaret Thatcher
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. – Margaret Thatcher
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. – Margaret Thatcher
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money. – Margaret Thatcher
We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. – 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. – Margaret Thatcher
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim. – Margaret Thatcher
People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top. – Margaret Thatcher
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. – 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. – Margaret Thatcher
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. – 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. – Margaret Thatcher
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. – Margaret Thatcher