Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country – Margaret Thatcher

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 – 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

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus – Margaret Thatcher

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

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