I wasn’t lucky. I deserved it.

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.

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.

The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

The woman’s mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine...

We didn’t have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That...

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

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

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.

It pays to know the enemy / not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

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

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.

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

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians

[Her supporters call her] The Iron Lady, … have brought equal competence, strength and courage to everything that they do.

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

This is not the first such Europe-wide attempt to bully national electorates.

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

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

[Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher praised the pontiff’s role in toppling communism.] Millions owe him their freedom and self-respect. The whole world is inspired by his example, … His life was a long struggle...

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not...

It is only when you look now and see success that you say that it was good fortune. It was not. We lost 250 of our best young men. I felt every one.

The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to...

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time...

a great loss not only to Jordan, not only to the Middle East, but I think to the world as a whole.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

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

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

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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

If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

I’m fine, I’m fine. I feel fine. The doctors assessed her this morning and say she is OK.

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

It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people’s territory and staying there.

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...

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

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

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

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the...

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...