 If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. |
| We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. |
| Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. |
| 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. |
| What Britain needs is an iron lady. |
| This lady is not for turning. |
| I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. |
| If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. |
| There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty. |
| To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. |
| Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. |
| It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. |
| I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say. |
| I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. |
| 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. |
| I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. |
| Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. |
