Margaret Thatcher

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

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

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.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

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

It's a funny old world.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.