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

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.

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.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Man is the cruelest animal.

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

A hard man is good to find.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.