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

Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.

Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.

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

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

While the home must always be the center of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.

I’m back, and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’

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

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.

And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.

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.

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

Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries, we are left with the problems which aren’t poverty

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.

We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it’s a constant battle. It’s an exciting opportunity to be active.

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren’t cliche.

If it’s something I can’t achieve, I tell them straight.

There is a political process which we are trying to achieve through what is called the Vienna Group.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.