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Margaret Thatcher
English
Leader
About the author
It's a funny old world.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#World
#Old
#Funny
I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Business
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,
English
Leader
#Want
#Time
#Will
#Woman
#Jobs
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,
English
Leader
#Home
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,
English
Leader
#Love
#Argument
#Job
#Debate
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Money
#Intentions
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#World
#Weapons
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Will
#Problems
#Home
#Country
#Woman
#Understanding
#Running
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#People
#Being
#Lady
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Being
#Job
#Lonely
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,
English
Leader
#Nations
#Publicity
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,
English
Leader
#Right
#Self
#Satisfaction
#Pride
#Importance
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#History
#Europe
#America
#Philosophy
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,
English
Leader
#Argument
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#End
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Will
#End
#Evil
#Politics
#Conflict
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,
English
Leader
#Work
#Will
#Pretty
#Hard work
I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Nothing
#Women
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,
English
Leader
#Home
#Father
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,
English
Leader
#Time
#Enemy
#May
#Friend
#Opportunity
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Man
#Mind
#Change
I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#End
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Ability
#Woman
#Job
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Walking
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,
English
Leader
#Time
#Nothing
#Compromise
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,
English
Leader
#World
#Country
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,
English
Leader
#Time
#Nothing
#Compromise
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Want
#Man
#Woman
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Want
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Love
#Money
#Wrong
#Creation
#Wealth
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#May
#Crows
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Talk
#Mind
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Nothing
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#May
#Fight
#Battle
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,
English
Leader
#Cause
#Media
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Old
#Truth
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Being
#Men
#Politics
#Sex
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Compliment
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#People
#Politics
#Party
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Liberty
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Earth
#Heaven
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Men
#Women
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#People
#Being
#Power
#Lady
This lady is not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Lady
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Trying
#Disease
#Cure
#Socialism
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Battle
#Women
#Rights
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Heart
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Road
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Needs
#Lady
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,
English
Leader
#Work
#Success
#Purpose
#Sense
#Hard work
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Road
#Travel
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Lies
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Margaret Thatcher,
English
Leader
#Work
#Day
#Today
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,
English
Leader
#People
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,
English
Leader
#Values
#Principles
#Beliefs