Margaret Thatcher

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

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.

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. - London Daily Telegraph, 3/21/86

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

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

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. - from an interview with Barbara Walters, 3/18/87

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. - from People Magazine, 9/15/75

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

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

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it

Let our children grow tall,and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so

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

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

What is success?I think it is a mixture of having flair for the thing that you are doing;knowing that it is not enough,that you have got to have hardwork and a certain sense of purpose"

Problem z socjalizmem polega na tym, że w końcu zabraknie ci pieniędzy innych ludzi.

The problem with socialism is that, eventually, you run out of other people's money.