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Margaret Thatcher [1925-2013] English

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Leader, Former British Prime Minister

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRIC was a British stateswoman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.	Women	101
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.	Good, Politics	102
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.	Power	103
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.	Success	104
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.		105
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.	History	106
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.	Love	107
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.	Government, Money	108
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.		109
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.	Best, Good, Wisdom	110
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.	Work	111
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.	Men, Politics	112
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.	Good	113
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.	Work	114
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.		115
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.	Success, Work	116
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.	Time	117
What Britain needs is an iron lady.	History	118
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.	Home	119
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.		120
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.	Time, Wisdom	121
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.		122
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.		123
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.	History	124
I owe nothing to Women's Lib.	Women	125
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.	Work	126
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.	Women	201
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.		202
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.	History	203
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.		204
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.		205
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.	Finance, Travel	206
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.	Money	207
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.		208
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.		209
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.	Politics	210
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.		211
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.		212
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.	Equality, Women	213
This lady is not for turning.		214
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.	Change, Men	215
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.	Money	216
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.	Alone, War	217
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.		218
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.		219
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.	Chance, Government	220
I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.	Business	221
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.		222
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.		223
We Conservatives hate unemployment.		224
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.		225
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.	Money	226
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.		301
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.	Politics	302
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.		303
It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.		304
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.	Society	305
It's a funny old world.	Humor	306
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.	Home	307

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