Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

About Margaret Thatcher:

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher is the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Margaret Thatcher

I just owe almost everything to my father and 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

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

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Margaret Thatcher

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

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Margaret Thatcher

It's a funny old world.

Margaret Thatcher

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

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.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Margaret Thatcher

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

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

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.

Margaret Thatcher

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

Margaret Thatcher

Author Bio

  • NameMargaret Thatcher
  • DescriptionPrime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • AliasesBaroness Thatcher; Margaret Hilda Thatcher; Margaret Roberts; Maggie Thatcher; Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher; Baroness Margaret Thatcher; Margaret Thatcher
  • BornOctober 13, 1925
  • DiedApril 8, 2013
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPolitician; Chemist; Autobiographer
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of Merit; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Lady Of The Garter; Fellow Of The Royal Society; Order Of The White Lion; Ronald Reagan Freedom Award