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Margaret Thatcher Quotes


If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

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

Margaret Thatcher
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

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

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

Margaret Thatcher
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
It's a funny old world.

Margaret Thatcher
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 one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

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
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Margaret Thatcher
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

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

Margaret Thatcher
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
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

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

Margaret Thatcher