Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

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 Quote

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

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 Quote

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

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 Quote

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

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 Quote

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

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 Quote

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

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 Quote

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
- Margaret Thatcher Quote