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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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
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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
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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher
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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher
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I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Margaret Thatcher
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
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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If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
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
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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
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If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher
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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
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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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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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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
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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%.
Margaret Thatcher
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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Margaret Thatcher
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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret Thatcher
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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher
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There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
Margaret Thatcher
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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
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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To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher
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To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret Thatcher
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher
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We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
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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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret Thatcher
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
