I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

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

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

It's a funny old world.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.