Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

"In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."

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

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

"No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent."

"If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage."

"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."

"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."

"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus."

"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd."

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

"I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air."

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

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

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

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

"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."

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

"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 owe nothing to Women's Lib."

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