Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t – 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

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive – Margaret Thatcher

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

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus – Margaret Thatcher

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