Margaret Thatcher Quotes
Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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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.
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I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
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I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
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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.
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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.
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If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
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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.
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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.
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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
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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.
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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%.
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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
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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.
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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
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To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
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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.
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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.
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We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
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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.
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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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