Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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.

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

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

The lady's not for turning.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

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

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

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

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.

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

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

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

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

It may be the cock that crows but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

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

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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