Margaret Thatcher

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

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

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

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

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

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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

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

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

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