Quotes from 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.

Elizabeth Truss and Nadine Dorris walked into a bar, the IQ of the bar was greatly diminished by this.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

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

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

This lady is not for turning.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

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

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

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

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.

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.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

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

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.

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

Consensus: "The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.