I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
You turn if you want to. The Lady’s not for turning.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn’t just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.
Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
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.
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.