Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady of British politics, Margaret Thatcher was the longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827. Her conservative politics led to the implementation of such radically-conservative policies as the poll tax. The Falkland Islands war was fought during her tenure. When her party leadership was challenged in 1990, she resigned, later also retiring from the House of Commons.
We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.
Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
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.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
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.
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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.
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 when you've had everything to do and you've done it.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Let our children grow tall, and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
It will be years - and not in my time - before a woman will lead the party or become prime minister.
I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
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