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

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

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

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 – 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

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors.I mean it – Margaret Thatcher