Margaret Thatcher

Was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

  • If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
  • To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
  • You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
  • It's a funny old world.
  • Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
  • 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.
  • 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 problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
  • Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
  • 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.