There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
Margaret ThatcherWhether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.
Margaret ThatcherI've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret ThatcherIt had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them you're not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.
Margaret Thatcher