Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRICwas a British stateswoman and politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth13 October 1925
CityGrantham, England
Advisers advise, and ministers decide.
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.
I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.
Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.
First you win the argument, then you win the vote.
You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.
All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea – encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.