Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
MARGARET THATCHERBeing Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
-
-
When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
MARGARET THATCHER -
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.
MARGARET THATCHER -
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
MARGARET THATCHER -
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.
MARGARET THATCHER -
If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
MARGARET THATCHER -
While the home must always be the center of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.
MARGARET THATCHER -
It’s a funny old world.
MARGARET THATCHER -
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHER -
Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries, we are left with the problems which aren’t poverty
MARGARET THATCHER -
Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
MARGARET THATCHER -
It’s no time to be wobbly, Geo.
MARGARET THATCHER -
Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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 -
The problem with socialists is that they always run out of other people’s money.
MARGARET THATCHER -
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
MARGARET THATCHER