We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them..

Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of t….

I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. ….

It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war..

For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virt….

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing..

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative..

And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism..

A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: "I'm ….

We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?.

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help..

Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved..

We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them..

We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We in….

You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We ….

The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic i….

If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then have been morally r….

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine.

I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts.

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am..

Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive in the Eastern as well as the Western half of ou….