Margaret Thatcher

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

-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

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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"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."

-Margaret Thatcher

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"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

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-Margaret Thatcher

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"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."

-Margaret Thatcher

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

-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

"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