Margaret Thatcher

“It's a funny old world.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“What Britain needs is an iron lady.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”

“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

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

“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.”