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Agreement
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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
-Margaret Thatcher
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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
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America
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Communication
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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism...and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Conversation
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I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Deception/Lying
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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Dissent
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If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Enemy, Enemies
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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
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Equality
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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Government
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People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.
-Margaret Thatcher, interview (published October 31 1987), "Woman's Own", September 23, 1987
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Happiness
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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
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Heart
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Home
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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Leadership
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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
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Men
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One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Men & Women
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The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Motivational
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Opinion
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Opportunity
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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
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Patience
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Persistence
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
-Margaret Thatcher
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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
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This lady is not for turning.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Politics
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Poverty
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Books by and about Margaret Thatcher