Margaret Thatcher

“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

“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

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

— Margaret Thatcher

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

— 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

“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

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”

— 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

“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.”

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— 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

“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

“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”

— 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

“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

“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Margaret Thatcher

“It's a funny old world.”

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Margaret Thatcher