There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
This lady is not for turning.
It will be years – not in my time – before a woman will become Prime Minister.
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.
Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.
Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.
The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.
During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it.
It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.
I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
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 the rule of law.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.
I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society – from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
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 started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.