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.

I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

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.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

This lady is not for turning.

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing. There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

In politics the unexpected happens

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

El socialismo es un sistema que prefiere que los pobres sean más pobres con tal que los ricos sean menos ricos.

His politics had a freshness and optimism that won converts from every class and every nation, and ultimately from the very heart of the evil empire,

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species / it is the tigress and lioness in you / which tends to defend when attacked.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Her guidance and advice are always most acute and as prime minister I was privileged to benefit from both enormously.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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

The battle for women’s rights has largely been won

The lady’s not for turning.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for...

[Straw] had ample power to put an end to this shameful and damaging episode, … He has chosen instead to prolong it.

I don’t know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.

a wonderful Queen and an extraordinary person.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

It’s a funny old world.

I don’t mind how much my ministers talk – as long as they do what I say.

I just owe almost everything to my father and 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...

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I want my money back!

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.

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

I’m not a good butcher but I’ve had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

To Ronnie: Well done, thou good and faithful servant,

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

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 a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.

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

must be allowed to return to his own country forthwith.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

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

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

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

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any...

old, frail and sick.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions – he had money too

[But even some leading politicians of the Right have had doubts:] Nothing is more insidious than a fashionable consensus, … Surely there is something logically suspect about a solution which is correct whatever the problem.

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

I’m not quite sure of his place in history. History will determine that.