If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
Margaret Thatcher

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

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Margaret Thatcher

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
Margaret Thatcher

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Margaret Thatcher

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
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

It's a funny old world.
Margaret Thatcher

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret Thatcher

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

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

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret Thatcher

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

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
Margaret Thatcher

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