Margaret Thatcher Quotes

English - Leader | October 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013

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.

Margaret Thatcher

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No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Margaret Thatcher

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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

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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

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We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

Margaret Thatcher

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Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Margaret Thatcher

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There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

Margaret Thatcher

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I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Margaret Thatcher

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I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Margaret Thatcher

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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Margaret Thatcher

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