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 can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty – 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

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

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

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