Margaret Thatcher

“I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.”

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

“The battle for women's rights has been largely won.”

“It's a funny old world.”

“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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 believe have won the election.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

“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.”