Margaret Thatcher Quotes

“well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

“Consensus is the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects. - Margaret Thatcher.”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

“In general, more nonsense was written about the so-called ‘feminine factor’ during my time in office than about almost anything else. I was always asked how it felt to be a woman Prime Minister. I would reply: ‘I don’t know: I’ve never experienced the alternative.”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

“while the home must always be the centre of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions’.”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

“Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd. But with Denis there I was never alone. What a man. What a husband. What a friend.”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

“Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

“All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

“Amid a good deal of merriment, not least from Harold Lever himself, a shrewd businessman from a wealthy family, I replied: ‘I always felt that I could never rival him [Lever] at the Treasury because there are four ways of acquiring money. To make it. To earn”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

“those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

“For my part, I did not make a particularly important contribution to Shadow Cabinet. Nor was I asked to do so. For Ted and perhaps others I was principally there as the statutory woman whose main task was to explain what ‘women’ – Kiri Te Kanawa, Barbara Cartland, Esther Rantzen, Stella Rimington and all the rest of our uniform, undifferentiated sex – were likely to think and want on troublesome issues.”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography