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

I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.

Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.

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.

An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.

If you CAN’T then all the advertising, fancy packaging, sales promotion and public relations in the world won’t help you achieve your objective.

Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

As expected life isn’t that sweet at all. When I came to Tokyo I thought I could achieve anything with my own two hands. It’s not like that.