Margaret Thatcher

“There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”

— 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

“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

“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

“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“I owe nothing to Women's Lib.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“The battle for women's rights has been largely won.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“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