Margaret Thatcher

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I will not change just to court popularity.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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

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

And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) It__ the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They__e got the usual Socialist disease _ they__e run out of other people__ money.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

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

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

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

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