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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

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

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

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

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

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

It's a funny old world.

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

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

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

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.