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.

I just owe almost everything to my father and 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.

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

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

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

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

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.

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

It's a funny old world.

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

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.