If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman – Margaret Thatcher

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

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty – 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

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus – Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t – Margaret Thatcher