I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
I’ve learned one thing in politics. You don’t take a decision until you have to.
The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.
I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.
We Conservatives hate unemployment.
We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.
There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new – and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.
The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don’t be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn’t lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.
There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.
That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.
Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
The messages on our banners in 1979 – freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership – are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.
I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.
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.
I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn’t interest me.