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 – 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 can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty – Margaret Thatcher

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy – Margaret Thatcher

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus – Margaret Thatcher

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure – Margaret Thatcher

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 – Margaret Thatcher

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

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