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

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.

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.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.