Top 42 Best Thatcher Quotes
#2. We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.
Margaret Thatcher
#4. I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Thom Yorke
#5. There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.
Margaret Thatcher
#7. I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards.
Margaret Thatcher
#8. I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.
Carly Fiorina
#9. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
#10. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.
Rush Limbaugh
#11. Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies.
Carol Thatcher
#12. The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher's strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary.
Nigel Hamilton
#13. No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
#15. There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.
Margaret Thatcher
#16. You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.
Margaret Thatcher
#17. The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.
Denis Thatcher
#18. Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?
Margaret Thatcher
#19. To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher
#20. I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?
Margaret Thatcher
#21. It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher
#22. We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.
Margaret Thatcher
#23. During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it.
Margaret Thatcher
#24. Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.
Simon Hoggart
#27. I think my parents knew before I did that I was going to be an actress, because I was doing impressions of Margaret Thatcher at the age of four.
Michelle Dockery
#29. Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.
Margaret Thatcher
#30. 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.
Margaret Thatcher
#31. It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.
Margaret Thatcher
#32. Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
#33. When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
Margaret Thatcher
#34. If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
#35. Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for? ... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.
Margaret Thatcher
#36. I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
Margaret Thatcher
#37. Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.
Monica Crowley
#38. Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.
Margaret Thatcher
#39. John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.
Edward Leigh
#40. If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
Malcolm Turnbull
#41. It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.
Margaret Thatcher
#42. To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher
