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

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

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 – Margaret Thatcher

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

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend – Margaret Thatcher